Characters / Castlevania (2017): Protagonists

Castlevania (2017) Character Index
Protagonists | Antagonists (Dracula, Dracula's Army, Styrian Council) | Other

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Main Characters

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From left to right: Sypha, Trevor, and Alucard.

"My father has to die. We three... we can destroy him."

— Adrian "Alucard" Tepes

The main trio of the story, whose primary goal is to kill Dracula and all his minions in order to save the world.

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• Adaptational Wimp: As a group, the three of them (plus Grant) defeated Dracula in the games, and likewise, Trevor can do it without any help whatsoever. In this series, Dracula thoroughly trounces the three of them (even while weakened due to blood-starvation), and only dies because he allows Alucard to kill him.
• Anti-Hero Team: While they're the good guys in all of this, they're not above a few morally dubious things.
  • Trevor is a rotten drunk who would rather be drinking his sorrows away than fighting. On top of that, he doesn't really have all that much interest in fighting night creatures or his family's history, and he's kind of an asshole to everyone he meets.
  • Sypha starts off as a Nice Girl, but she ends up with "an appreciation for the rougher things in life" after a time. She's also not above burning and impaling night creatures, and even threatens people.
  • Alucard firsts suggests killing the one who killed Lisa to Dracula in an attempt to calm him down, and he apparently was totally serious about it (though considering the man in question it’s hardly unreasonable). Alucard also doesn't have any problem with murder, slaughtering his enemies and fighting dirty.
• Babies Ever After: Season 4 ends with Sypha carrying Trevor's child, and Alucard becoming a surrogate father to the orphans of Danesti.
• Badass Crew: A trio consisting of an experienced monster hunter and fighter (Trevor), a proficient scholar of magic (Sypha), and a dhampyr with a variety of supernatural powers as well being a master swordsman (Alucard). Alone, they are a deadly force against evil. Together, they can slay entire armies and godlike beings.
• Beware the Silly Ones: All of them have their own quirks, especially Trevor, who comes across as a drunken idiot. Nevertheless, when it comes to monster hunting, they are incredibly lethal, even against high-level vampire generals.
• Biblical Motifs: Each member of the trio corresponds a member of the Holy Family:
  • Trevor is St. Joseph, an ostracized vagabond descended from nobility who is quicker to doubt in the face of miracles. Joseph is also invoked to protect against tragic deaths, which Trevor prevents as a monster hunter and saviour of humans.
  • Sypha is the Virgin Mary, a worker of miracles dressed in blue robes who, like the "Joseph" is persecuted for her heritage.
  • Alucard is Jesus, the youngest member of the company (despite appearances) who rises from the grave to save humanity from evil, and is the son of a great, godlike being. Season 3 even sees him bound in a Crucified Hero Shot by people he sought to help, but turned on him out of fear and ignorance. He eve gets called "floating vampire Jesus" at one point by Trevor.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Alucard is the Blond, Trevor is the Brunet, and Sypha is the Redhead.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: They manage to land a few blows on Dracula as a team, even if he is wiping the floor with them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: None of them had an easy life. See each of their own folders for more details.
• Deadpan Snarker: All three of them in different capacities; Trevor is wry and caustic, Sypha is sassy, and Alucard is witty and acerbic.
• Decoy Protagonist: In Season 2, the team as a whole is this to Dracula's Villain Protagonist. The screen time was divided unevenly with more than half devoted to Dracula's court. The story of Season 2 was ultimately Dracula's coming to terms with his despair and acceptance of death. As a whole, the first two seasons spent more time developing Dracula as a character than any of the trio.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: In Season 4, all of them are way, WAY more competent or skilled than when their journey first began, but they are also physically weaker for various reasons. Alucard has been drinking and letting himself go since the events of Season 3, and both Trevor and Sypha have been fighting non-stop since around the same time (and Sypha is pregnant at that). This is the only reason most foes are able to even put up any kind of fight against any of them. And that becomes moot when the three fight together.
• The Dreaded: A Vampire Hunter from a legendary bloodline, a magician with mastery of the elements, and the near-demigod Dhampyr son of Dracula himself: each is an incredible threat on their own, but when all three come strolling into Dracula's castle casual as you please, the Enemy Civil War slams to a halt. Every vampire in the entrance hall nearly pisses themselves and immediately stops fighting each other in order to kill them.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: All 3 of them go through absolutey awful life experiences. By the end of the series, Trevor and Sypha are happy together and expecting a child, while Alucard has people around him who care about him and it's almost certain that he will end up together with Greta. All 4 decide to build a village surrounding Alucard's castle and as a cherry on top, Alucard's parents are unknowingly resurrected and living a happy life.
• Family of Choice: By the end of Season 4, all three of them (along with Greta) are basically a family. Sypha and Trevor are expecting a child, Alucard is the founder of his own village with Greta as his partner. The people of the village are taking the first steps at using the resources of both Dracula's Castle and the Belmont keep to form a new Belmont clan (within a town of the same name), and even the children of said town have already begun calling Alucard "Father".
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Alucard is the Fighter, due to his supernatural physical endurance, strength, and speed, and he's the only one who can physically fight Dracula head on. Sypha is the Mage, a Speaker Magician adept in pyromancy and cryomancy. Trevor is the Thief, relying on strategy and weaponry to give him an edge since he is a normal human, in addition to relying on his wits to make up for the situation going south. Trevor also has zero qualms about nicking any potentially useful magic item he comes across, and by his own admission has burgled to get by. Do note that while Sypha is a Mage through and through, Trevor can also count as a Fighter when Alucard is not around, as a trained and well-armed warrior with a penchant for monster slaying. Likewise, Alucard may be much stronger than any human, but he also has Super-Senses and perception, extreme speed, and the ability to Flash Step and shapeshift, making him a Thief when his subtle skills are required.
• Fire-Forged Friends: The trio is a group of strangers with their own issues who somehow band together to stop Dracula's war on humanity. And through it all, an unlikely friendship forms.
• Freudian Trio:
  • Trevor is the Id. He is very emotional, not afraid to make his feelings known, and is out to kill Dracula and vampires because that's what his family does. His first instinct on recognizing Alucard as a dhampyr is to attack him. Oddly enough, he's terrible at emotional comfort, contrary to expectations.
  • Alucard is the Superego. Cold, logical, and in the fight against Dracula so as to honor his late mother's wish to help humanity. He is the one who offers the most help to Sypha as she tries to find a way to lock down Dracula's castle, compared to Trevor, who, while literate, cannot read the esoteric or ancient books of lore in the Belmont library.
  • Sypha balances the two out as the Ego, being more emotional than Alucard, but more logical than Trevor and serves as the bridge between the two (often literally in the show, being the one to be the link between them).
• Good Is Not Dumb:
  • Trevor is a snarky, immature alcoholic but he's also an experienced monster hunter who is more perceptive than he looks.
  • Sypha may be naïve but it's only to a mild extent and she's shown to be level-headed, knowledgeable about many subjects, and is a brutal Combat Pragmatist.
  • Alucard was given an educated childhood from his parents and, thus, is quite book smart.
• Interspecies Friendship: A friendship forms between two humans (Trevor and Sypha) and a dhampyr (Alucard).
• Leitmotif: "Hunter, Scholar, Soldier".
• Magic Is Feminine:
  • Sypha is the Squishy Wizard of the main trio and the only woman among them.
  • Alucard is a Dhampyr Magic Knight with long, flowing blonde hair and a clean-shaven face. This is in contrast to Trevor who is a Badass Normal with shorter hair, Perma-Stubble, and a scar over his left eye.
• Manchild: Alucard and Trevor bickered like children on a playground. Sypha, though more mature, acted like their teenage babysitter at times. Downplayed in that Alucard and Trevor seem to enjoy it.
• Nice Mean And In Between: All-Loving Hero Sypha is nice, Jerk with a Heart of Gold Trevor is mean, and Gentleman Snarker Alucard is in-between.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male: Alucard is a gentlemanly man who fights elegantly with a sword and shield. Trevor is a scruffy, crude alcoholic vagrant who fights with a variety of tools and whatever he can get his hands on.
• "Not So Different" Remark: After their Break the Cutie moments in Season 3, both Alucard and Sypha realize they may become more like Trevor. Sypha starts to swear and is cynical, while Alucard becomes a drunken loner who barely takes care of himself.
  Sypha: ... I was nice. And then I met you, and now I'm like you.
  Alucard: Oh, my God. I'm turning into Belmont.
• One-Man Army: All of them can take on multitudes of enemies by themselves. They all take on a small army of vampire soldiers at the end of Season 2, and their individual efforts are enough to overcome all the obstacles in their way.
• Sexual Karma: Following their relationship upgrade in Season 3, Trevor and Sypha are shown to have an active sex life and genuinely enjoy each other's company. By contrast, Alucard was seduced by Sumi and Taka, and was nearly murdered by them while he was distracted by the sex.
• Spanner in the Works: They end up being this to Carmilla in Season 2. On one hand, they get rid of Dracula like she intended to do, but on the other hand, they completely destroy her vampire army accidentally while trying to teleport Dracula's castle to their location, which left her deprived of forces and spoiled her plan.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Seasons 1-3, the trio are definitely badass, but their lethality and abilities against night creatures and vampires is only barely enough to win most battles. For example, it takes Sypha time and effort to cast a fire and lightning spells, Trevor has a limited arsenal of weaponry, and Alucard only utilizes a small amount of his transformations. In Season 4, on the other hand, these three are Badasses with a Capital B; Alucard uses more of his transformations, makes use of more weapons, and demolishes his foes. Sypha is not only using her magic in much more varied and creative ways, but is basically a Person of Mass Destruction, even capable of using room-clearing fire and electric magic almost instantaneously, and even for flight. And Trevor gains even more weapons, such as the "Boomerang", Holy Water and a magical Dagger; he also admits that the more he fights, the more his Belmont training has been coming back to him, making him even more formidable. To give the bad guys even the slightest chance against them, all three have a Drama-Preserving Handicap; Alucard admits that his strength has diminished (seemingly due to drinking and apathy) since his fight with Dracula, and both Trevor and Sypha have been fighting almost nonstop for several weeks, with almost no sleep. Trevor in particular has been bruised and beaten heavily, and Sypha is pregnant. By the end, they have almost completely run out of gas in their tanks but still completely wreck shop during the final battle, since the three of them combined compensate for one-another's weaknesses.
• Two Guys and a Girl: Trevor and Alucard are the "Two Guys" while Sypha is the only female of the trio.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: All three of them will bicker and mock each other. But at the end of the second season, they're Fire-Forged Friends. With Trevor giving Alucard the Belmont vault to protect so he doesn't sleep the rest of his life away. Alucard even flips Trevor off when he and Sypha leave while Trevor laughs it off.

Trevor Belmont

Voiced by: Richard Armitage (English), Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese), José Gilberto Vilchis (Latin American Spanish), Oliver Siebeck (German)

"I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to a man nor fucking beast!"

The last member of House Belmont, reduced to a wandering drunk, Trevor becomes caught up in Dracula's war while in Gresit and embarks on a quest to end Dracula's campaign of terror.

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• Action Dad: It's revealed that Sypha is pregnant with his child at the end of Season 4.
• Actually Pretty Funny: After giving a sentimental goodbye to Alucard at the end of the second season, Alucard playfully gives him the finger. Trevor laughs at this before giving a joking "fuck you" in return.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Trevor lost his family in both the game and animated TV series. However, the trauma and anger he feels is more evident in the latter.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: While it's hard to tell with the original game, where he was depicted as a Barbarian Hero, Trevor is mostly clean-shaven with short hair and impressive build in the series.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While Trevor didn't receive much characterization in the games, he was still mostly portrayed as a straight-up noble person, returning to Wallachia from his family's exile to save its people and earn back their trust. This version of Trevor is a drunken, belligerent misanthrope who understandably and actively hates the people who cast out his family, but rises to his noble nature to protect them despite his misgivings. He also swears a lot more and fights dirtier than the original version.
• Adaptational Modesty: In the original game, Trevor only wore a loincloth, breastplate and boots. Here, he's clothed from head to toe.
• Adaptation Name Change: A bit of an unusual recursive example: in the Japanese version of the series he is still known as "Trevor Belmont", despite the source character being known as "Ralph C. Belmont" in the original Japanese games.
• Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed, while his arsenal is far more limited, human opponents can give him significant trouble^* Granted he was very drunk that one time, later fights tend to become one Curb-Stomp Battle after the other and he fails to actually kill Dracula on his own. It becomes subverted later in the series, however. Trevor gains a larger arsenal of weapons, shows off a lot more proficiency at fighting, and singlehandedly defeats Death (or at least a spirit that presents itself as death due to feeding off it). Justified, as he tells Sypha that his Belmont training is slowly coming back to him bit-by-bit.
• The Alcoholic: Due to the Church excommunicating the Belmont family and destroying their ancestral home, Trevor Belmont has spent his days since then as a vagrant wandering the land from tavern to tavern, spending what little remains of his family fortune on booze. In Season 3 after probably a month without a drink, he eagerly gulps down beer, saying it's better than sex.
• Amazon Chaser: Implied. When Sypha saved him from the mob via her magic powers, Trevor gives an appreciative smirk while looking towards her in apparent admiration.
• Ancestral Weapon: In addition to the leather whip and the Morning Star, Trevor also picks up the longsword of his ancestor: Leon, from the Belmont Hold in Season 2, and carries it all the way through to when they kill Dracula together.
• Awesome by Analysis: The Belmont hat, it seems. Their extensive history fighting monsters means that when it comes down to it, Trevor knows how to beat them either from experience or from the family bestiary. He also has a good sense of magically enchanted weapons.
• Badass Boast:
  • Double subverted in a bar fight in Episode 2. When facing some drunks, he says, "I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to a man nor fucking beast!" Immediately after this, he gets knocked to the floor and hit in the face with a chair. However, come one Gilligan Cut later, he's standing outside the bar none the worse for wear, yelling back at the drunks he's just beaten up.
  • Played straight in Episode 3. When members of the Corrupt Church come to kill him, Trevor says "I'm Trevor Belmont, of the House of Belmont. And dying has never frightened me."
  • Also played straight in Episode 6 of Season 2 after butchering a bunch of Hector's demonspawn.
    Trevor: When you get back to whatever steaming underworld shithole you came from, you tell them there are still Belmonts up here!
• Badass Normal: Barring his enchanted whips, he's just a man who knows how to fight monsters, without powers of his own other than his vampire hunter training. He even fights Alucard to a standstill, who Godbrand later suggests is the most powerful Vampire in-series after only Dracula himself. In Season 3, he manages to kill a werewolf night creature with nothing but his hands, feet, and his wits and in Season 4, he solos Death.
• Bag of Spilling: Throughout Season 4 he loses a good amount of his weaponry, right after just getting two new ones. He loses his leather whip while fighting Dragan and his forces, he wrecks the Cross Haladie after using it to destroy the Rebis, drops his Morning Star after using it to distract Death and finally destroys the magic God-killing dagger after using it to destroy the powerful spirit posing as Death.
• Battle Couple: With Sypha in Season 3.
• Being Good Sucks: And he'll tell you as much if asked. He faces no end of scorn from the people for being the son of a noble family, is regularly accused of using Black Magic, and has to carry on his family's legacy on his own. He does it anyway.
• Berserk Button: Seasons 1 and 2 show that he can handle any insult directed at him; it's when his family is insulted or accused of black magic that he loses his temper and starts firing back.
• Better than Sex: The alcoholic that he is, he claims beer is better than sex, especially when he's gone without a drink for a long time. He made the unfortunate mistake of saying this in front of Sypha after the two had undergone a Relationship Upgrade, and she freezes his beer for saying it.
• Big Brother Instinct: It gets implied that part of the reason why Trevor engages Alucard in Volleying Insults is because he knows Alucard is sniping at him as a coping mechanism for the grief he's still experiencing. And by the end of the second season, he gives Alucard ownership of the Belmont Hold to encourage his new purpose in life.
• Blatant Lies:
  • Steps on a pressure plate and with his foot still firmly planted on it looks at Sypha and says "I didn't do that".
  • In Season 2, he argues with Sypha about whether he's nice or not. While he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, he still is a jerk.
• Blood Knight: Trevor is a minor example of this as he never gets really excited over anything, but there are times where he actually enjoys a good fight every now and then to satisfy his existence for living by fighting monsters. In Season 3, he admits that spending time with Sypha and fighting multiple night creatures and monsters has been fun. In another Season 3 episode, he refers to himself as "a simple man with simple pleasures" just before beating up two of the so-called monks. He smiles and laughs through the 2-on-1 fight, looking like he's just playing an exceptionally violent game of tag.
• Book Dumb: Subverted. Trevor's quite knowledgeable when it comes to fighting monsters, with a good head on his shoulders. He's only the least well-read compared to the Speaker spellcaster and the son of Dracula who serve as traveling companions. It's revealed that he's this way because he lost his home and family at the age of thirteen. Or at least something close to it.
  Trevor: Thirteen, fourteen, something like that.
  Sypha: You've been on your own since you were thirteen?
  Trevor: Maybe twelve. Who remembers that sort of thing?
• Boring Insult: He calls Death a 'thing', only a 'thing', and only 'an old killer' like him, clearly unimpressed by the creature's power and posturing.
• Brainy Brunette: Trevor has brown hair and is an experienced monster hunter.
• Broken Ace: Like his family, Trevor is a skilled and accomplished One-Man Army Badass Normal monster hunter. And at a young age, he had to deal with losing his entire family, surviving on his own, and having many Wallachia citizens badmouth his family. Needless to say, Trevor became more cynical and surlier as a result.
• Butt-Monkey: Regularly ends up beaten, harassed, humiliated, and the target of Alucard's teasing. Lampshaded when Sypha notes that most of the stories of his exploits she's heard end with him getting punched in the face.
• Catchphrase: Trevor tends to respond with an "I don't care."
• Chain Pain: Initially he uses a whip, but he upgrades it when he finds the Morning Star chain whip in the Belmont estate. Unlike the games, where the chains behave much like whips, the Morning Star has the actual physics of a long chain, making it extremely complex to use.
• Character Development: Trevor begins as a broken, cynical man who has given up on helping humanity after they excommunicated and executed his family, only getting drunk and being involved in fights. Helping the Speakers forces him to regain his sense of moral obligation that his family had and he starts to do what he hasn't done in a long time. Due to Sypha's company, he's noticeably happier and kinder, even empathizing with Saint-Germain's loneliness.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: His vampire hunter training helped to make him a formidable warrior in peak physical condition.
• Child Naming Request: Before fighting Death, he half-jokingly tells Sypha that "Trefor" was a bad name, as he didn't want their unborn child to be given that name.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: For all his grumbling about how ungrateful people are and his biting sarcasm, you can bet he'll be the first to take up arms for the helpless.
• The Coats Are Off: In Episode 3, he drops the cloak while giving his speech to the priests.
• Combat Pragmatist: When he's stone-cold sober. During his duel with Alucard, he tries to knee him in the groin, and when that doesn't work, headbutts him. Shows this again when he kills a werewolf with his bare hands in Season 3. He throat-punches the werewolf to subdue it and further cripples it by snapping its leg violently enough that bone came out, before killing the monster with a Neck Snap so hard that its throat rips open.
• Composite Character: Trevor was a Standardized Leader in the video games, but in the animated series he's absorbed most of Grant Danasty's personality traits: sarcastic, cynical, coarse, uncouth, bitter, hedonistic, and a tad greedy.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Trevor has lived so long as a sad, lonely man that it isn't until Sypha points this out that he realizes how long it's been.
• Confusion Fu: The real advantage of his fighting style, as not only can his whips perform a wide variety of moves that his enemies are likely to have never seen much less trained for before, he can also supplement his moves with his swords and athleticism to attack from any angle and any range.
• The Corruptor: This trope is Played for Laughs in Season 4. Both Sypha and Alucard, completely independently of each other, note that they've become progressively more profane and cynical since they began associating with him. Neither one is pleased with the realization (particularly when it comes to the swearing).
• Costume Evolution: In Season 3, he has a darker shirt and cloak.
• Covered in Scars: As shown in his shirtless scenes, he has a couple of scars of varying sizes on his chest and arms. After his fight with Death in the finale, his entire right arm is likely going to be covered.
• Dare to Be Badass: The ultimatum that Alucard gives him when the time to fight has come.
  Alucard: Come on, Belmont! Time to choose. You're either the last son of a warrior dynasty or a lucky drunk. Which is it?
• Dark and Troubled Past: While it's presumed Trevor had a good relationship with his family, the Church excommunicated the Belmonts and burned down their ancestral home because they feared the Belmonts' powers, causing Trevor to become a Knight in Sour Armor who spends his days looking for the next tavern where he can drink himself into a coma. We don't receive many details about his life between the destruction of his home and his arrival in Gresit, but he mentions being constantly alone and having to sometimes live as a burglar to survive.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's still the same anti-heroic man from Season 1 but he now sports darker colored clothing in Season 3.
• Deadly Disc: In Targoviste's Underground Court, Trevor finds a sort of four-bladed chakram called the Cross Haladie that an Indian weaponsmaster forged for a "mad Norwegian vampire hunter". He comes to wield it with almost the same proficiency as his whip and Morningstar, whirling it around and passing it between his hands without hurting or cutting anything (including his cape), or decapitating multiple vampires with one toss. It's basically the animated series' version of the famous Cross subweapon from the main series. Trevor's final use of this weapon is to take out the Dracula-Lisa Rebis and foil Death's plan.
• Deadpan Snarker: It might seem that the man has an untold stash of caustic remarks reserved for every occasion.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: The longer he travels with Sypha, the more Trevor gradually warms up to her and opens up about his feelings. In reality, his aloof and sarcastic personality is a mask to cope with the many hardships he's had to deal with.
• Determinator: At the beginning of the story, Trevor's nearly completely broken, but his time with Sypha and Alucard reinvigorates his spirit, to the point where he keeps fighting despite the odds. Even with the furious beating Death gives him, the last Belmont doesn't back down by so much as an inch. And wins.
• Determined Defeatist: In the final battle of the series. Trevor admits that he's "probably not" going to be able to stop Death, but he's going to "give this one last go" and fight anyways. Were it not for the timely intervention of Saint-Germaine, Trevor would have died by killing Death with an enchanted dagger, with the backlash also killing Trevor. Still, the fact he was going to die didn't even slow him down.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In the penultimate episode, Trevor fights Death alone and wins.
• Disney Death: Trevor aces Death head-on in the penultimate episode of Season 4 and goes out in a blaze of glory while also taking Death with him. The epilogue reveals that he fell into the opened Infinite Corridor right after his fight (thanks to Saint Germain's last act in life) and emerged elsewhere, injured but very much alive.
• Double Weapon: When closed the Cross Haladie takes the form of guarded handle with two daggers on each end. Making it much more easier to use in close quarters, compared to its fully extended form.
• The Dreaded:
  • The second Dracula's war council realizes that a Belmont still exists, they're all alarmed, with Carmilla being especially cautious due to their reputation.
  • Trevor seems quite ecstatic to have found the Morning Star, which is later validated by even Dracula recognizing and cursing the weapon.
• Drink-Based Characterization: Beer, which shows Trevor's rugged lifestyle.
• Drunken Master: Averted. He fights better sober, but he prefers being drunk.
• Dual Wielding: He sometimes prefers to use his whips alongside subweapons. Although most notably in Season 3, he simultaneously wields both the leather and Morning Star whips, against the Visitor.
• Embarrassing First Name: He tells Sypha that he was actually named after one of Leon's comrades named "Trefor". Sypha immediately jumps onto the chance to tease him about how he would have been called. This gets a Call-Back in the series finale before standing off against Death Trevor tells Sypha that "Trefor" was a terrible name because he didn't want their unborn child to be named that.
• Epic Flail: While in the Belmont Hold, Trevor discovers the Morning Star, a weighted club head on a chain as long as his whip (sometimes even longer). He uses it like a cross between a whip and a meteor hammer.
• Equipment Upgrade: After stocking up in the Belmont keep. He replaces his leather whip with the legendary Morning Star and his simple short sword with his ancestor Leon's ornate longsword. In Season 4, Trevor further increases his arsenal with a Deadly Disc and the disassembled pieces of a magic dagger^* Made to kill God., the latter of which displays its full potential when he defeats Death.
• Establishing Character Moment: The whole beginning of "Necropolis" establishes Trevor's character. He is clearly put off by the accusations the patrons make towards his family, but would rather get a drink and ignore it than fight them unprovoked. It is not until the patrons goad him into a fight that he actually does something about it, beating all three of them despite the heavy hits he takes and the fact that he is hard-drunk.
• Experienced Protagonist: He is already a trained monster hunter by the start of the series.
• Face Death with Dignity: Quite literally, as he faces Death at the end of Season 4 with little more than his skills, weapons, and courage, and is at peace with the fact that destroying the primordial vampiric being will certainly result in his own death.
• Fantastic Racism: Towards vampires and other supernatural creatures. Justified, given his family history and the very real threat vampires pose to humanity, but he frequently brings it up in arguments with Alucard, despite ostensibly being allies. Also played with in that he makes it clear that, personal feelings aside, he would have been fine just leaving Dracula be as long as he was merely brooding in his castle rather than trying to kill people — and that he considers the Church idiots for provoking him.
• Flaming Weapon: The Morning Star sometimes bursts into flames before Trevor strikes a killing blow; this is amplified in S3, where it happens more frequently. Against the Visitor at the climax of Season 3, both the Morning Star and the leather whip ignite and strike the Visitor with so much power that it's torn apart and incinerated at the same time.
  • He does it once again in his climactic battle with Death in Season 4, where the ignited Morning Star is able to stun Death long enough for Trevor to close the distance and stab the eldritch monster with his magic God-killing dagger.
• Forced to Watch: In the opening credits, Trevor is held down by two men who make him watch as his house burns to the ground.
• Freudian Excuse: He reveals that when he was a child, the Church burned down his home and slaughtered his family; he was the only survivor. That would make anyone bitter about their lot in the world.
• Genius Bruiser: To contrast Sypha and Alucard's Badass Bookworm, Trevor is a fighter but he's still a prodigious hunter from a long line of hunters and holds great knowledge of monsters, weaponry and tactics.
• Good is Not Nice: He is one of the good guys, sure, but don't expect him to show any mercy in accomplishing his goals. He's also kind of a dick to people he meets, and even worse to his friends.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: He prefers his whip, Morning Star, and short sword, but when he fights unarmed he's as competent as he is rough and dirty. He can hold his own in a bar brawl, albeit not without taking a few licks first, and manages to kill a wolfen Night Creature with some choice punches to the throat and a vicious neck-snap. In Season 3, he seems to actually enjoy a 2-on-1 fight with two "monks", one of whom has a knife; he easily beats them, smiling and chuckling to himself the whole time, without ever drawing a weapon of his own.
  • And of course, there is his most infamous moment in Season 2 when he thought it would be a good idea to sucker punch Dracula in the face.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a scar over his left eye which he, most likely, received on the night his home was burned down.
• Go Out with a Smile: As he lands the killing blow on Death, he closes his eyes and smiles as the two of them are engulfed in a white explosion. Subverted when he appears two weeks later back near Alucard's castle where he tells the two that Germain had opened a portal for him and he managed to find his way back.
• Grin of Audacity: Trevor flashes an excited grin more often over the seasons as he regains his vigor. When staring up at Death, a humongous monster with a scythe at least as big as him, Trevor just smiles, the Morningstar at the ready.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Trevor's forte is close/mid-range combat, while Sypha is more of a long-ranged fighter.
• Handicapped Badass: During Trevor's one-on-one fight against Death in Season 4's finale, he takes a couple of hard hits that send him flying. One of them having him collide with a large boulder that breaks his arm. Even then that doesn't stop him from fighting and he still manages to kill the powerful and evil spirit.
• Hates Being Alone: Inverted. Trevor admits he actually likes being alone in Season 3 Episode 5 due to spending most of his life being hated for being a Belmont. He's actually confused at how happy he is with Sypha.
• Hates Everyone Equally: You could build a castle with the contempt and sheer disgust he feels not just for vampires and monsters, but for the ignorant commoners that he tries to protect and the corrupt church members who depise him for no good reason.
• Henpecked Husband: Season 3 shows that Sypha is the one wearing the pants in their relationship but it's downplayed with their relationship being quite healthy.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Besides his whip, Trevor also uses a short sword in combat. He's quite good with it too, being able to stand toe-to-toe with Alucard, who is more experienced and powerful than Trevor. Later, Trevor upgrades to Leon Belmont's longsword.
• Heroic Ambidexterity: He can use his whips or swords in either hand, switching them up even during battle to confuse his opponents. Later seasons show that he's also able to dual-wield both sword and whip/flail, which is exceedingly difficult to do (especially with the complex maneuvers needed to use a whip to its full potential).
• Hero with an F in Good: He'll look out for innocent people, but he would much rather be drinking, eating good food, or sleeping under a tree. And he'll gladly tell you all of that.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The Belmonts were excommunicated by the church for their dealings in magic when fighting the forces of darkness. Trevor carries this stigma with him.
• Hidden Depths: The crass, rude man who has no love for monsters (including vampires). However, upon discovering the cause of Dracula's war on humanity being due to a group of them unjustly executing her, Trevor is nothing but sympathetic to the mad man. And despite Alucard making unnecessarily hurtful jabs at his family's legacy, Trevor never once retaliates in similar fashion.
• Hunk: He's tall, well-built, has a Rugged Scar, Perma-Stubble, and is very handsome.
• Hunter of Monsters: As a Belmont, this is his modus operandi. Despite being an alcoholic, he's not kidding when he says that he's "never lost a fight to a man nor fucking beast." Trevor's taken on Alucard, countless night creatures, a council of vampire warriors, and Dracula himself, all while coming out of it alive.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Trevor has light blue eyes to represent his cynical, Jaded Washout nature.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: In Season 2, Trevor says that he and Alucard aren't children. Right after he says this, Trevor tells Alucard to "Eat shit and die" while Alucard immediately responds with a "Yes, fuck you" to Trevor, causing the both of them to chuckle.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: Not so much with his sword, but rather his whip and later Morning Star. Chain and whip weapons are notoriously difficult to use, but he can control them so acutely that he can disarm, entangle, or crack the eye out of moving targets. He does some impressive tricks with the Morning Star in particular.
• Improvised Weapon: Breaks the blindfolded demon's weird pointy staff and uses the shaft to impale it. Continues Dual Wielding the broken halves of the shaft against a crow demon and firedrake, and even keeps the sharp half on him as he enters his battle with Dracula. That's a lot of mileage for a shattered staff.
• Incompletely Trained: Downplayed but Justified, since the rest of his family was wiped out when Trevor was only thirteen. While he's extremely skilled with a variety of weapons and possesses an almost encyclopedic knowledge of demons and monsters, he apparently received almost no training in magic, and as such can't even open the magically sealed door to access his family's library and trove until he gets Sypha and Alucard to do it for him.
• Instant Expert: He grasps how to use the Cross Haladie immediately after finding it, with his only prior knowledge of it being stories and pictures in his mother's books.
• Irony: In the games, he's one of the first Belmonts credited with successfully killing Dracula (before the latter's Resurrective Immortality resurrects him to face future generations) a fact alluded to in the series' teaser trailer when he confidently introduced himself as "the man who'll kill Dracula". Not only does he not succeed in killing Dracula — that honour instead going to Alucard^* aided by a remorseful Dracula's willingness to actually die — but by the final season, he actually succeeds in bringing Dracula Back from the Dead by sheer accident, after 2 whole seasons of trying to prevent that exact outcome. Furthermore, unlike others who tried to resurrect him intentionally deranged so he'd restart his genocide of humanity, Trevour brings back both him and his wife Lisa fully intact and no side-effects, allowing his family's Arch-Enemy to have a happy ending, despite being characterised as the main character utterly lacking in innate magics.
• Jaded Washout: His boast about how he used to fight "fucking vampires" during the bar fight in Episode 2 makes him come off as this. And it's sadly true — Trevor used to fight against the dark forces with his family for Wallachia, but the Church excommunicated them.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He's rude and sarcastic but makes valid points.
  • While speaking with the Elder speaker, the older man notes Trevor's apathy to human suffering. Trevor counters that the Church were the ones who didn't want the Belmonts anymore and their choice caused humanity to be unprotected.
  • During his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the corrupt priest, he makes a hard to fight truth: It was the Bishop who incurred Dracula's wrath for killing his defenseless and innocent wife.
  • While Sypha was right that Trevor didn't always have to respond to Alucard's jabs, he was right that the latter was trying to start a fight with him and Alucard's constant jabs at his family are not funny.
  • In the Season 3 premiere, Sypha calls Trevor out for selling the teeth of the monster they brought with them to Lindenfeld but has to admit Trevor is right that they need the money for food and shelter. He also refuses to say their full names when they first arrive, which is not an unwise move given his past.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his misanthropic outlook on life, when there is danger or wrongdoing, he will not stand on the sidelines.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Has a soft spot for them and went out of his way to save one from being abused. Sypha recounts hearing the abuser's leg break three times for the act of kicking the cat.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: Trevor is the main protagonist who regularly steals potentially useful items for the future.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Life has been rough on Trevor, and he has become desensitized to the death and destruction. However, he is a Belmont, and when called to fight he will still answer. Best shown with his Badass Boast to the priests, and by extension the civilians of Gresit and all of Wallachia.
  Trevor: I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? My family: the family you demonized and excommunicated, has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. We do it anyway. And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has never frightened me.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He visibly geeks out when he sees things that are related to monster hunting, such as the Morning Star and the Cross Haladie that a crazy Norwegian hunter once used.
• Lightning Bruiser: As humans go, Trevor's certainly fast, strong, and tough.
• Love Confession: Before he fights Death he sincerely looks over to Sypha with a smile on his face as he tells her he loves her.
• Magically Inept Fighter: Trevor stands out amongst the cast for being the one fighter that has practically no magical abilities or skills save those imbued into his equipment, like the Morning Star and the Consecrated Whip. It's especially prominent when contrasted against Sypha and Alucard, who each have innate abilities that make them immense powerhouses in a fight, whereas Trevor is noticeably unable to be as directly powerful. He more that makes up for it though, by being one hell of a Combat Pragmatist, always creatively analysing the battlefield and thinking on his feet to outmaneuver the enemies, as well as extremely tough and strong for a human being. When fighting against Dragan and his subordinates, it's Trevor's well-aimed throw of his Deadly Disk that turns the tides for the heroes, and it was his ability to identify the pieces of the God-killing blade that allowed him to kill Death itself, along with the being underestimating him for being just another ordinary human being. Trevor's magical ineptitude becomes especially prominent in the sequel series, as all his descendants through Sypha showcase impressive magical fortitude as a dynasty of Magic Knights, but none of whom can quite match Trevor's sheer physical brutality in a fight to close the gap with Vampires and night creatures.
• Master Swordsman: Besides his proficiency with a whip, Trevor has also shown to be proficient with his short sword. He's also pretty skilled with the ancestral longsword that he picks up in Season 2.
• Meaningful Name: Via Bilingual Bonus; Trevor was named after Trefor, the Celtic companion of Belmont patriarch Leon. To the French Leon, the name would have sounded like très fort, meaning "very strong," which describes Trevor perfectly.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: With Sypha, as they are an Official Couple by Season 3. He's a skilled Badass Normal monster hunter and she's a Speaker Magician.
• Multi-Melee Master: Trevor is proficient in multiple weapons from swords, spears, throwing knives, axes, whips and flails due to his training as a Belmont. He usually fights with a sword and a long-range weapon like a whip or flail at the same time. But even without weapons, Trevor is a force to be reckoned with.
• Mythology Gag: If one pays attention, Trevor winds up using each of his subweapons from the game. The Cross Haladie is the iconic cross, or Banshee Boomerang. He throws short blades more than once, replicating the dagger subweapon, and hurls a night creature's hatchets back at it like the battle axe subweapon in Season 3. He even uses a wineskin of holy water as a projectile in Season 4, albeit with the help of the Cross Haladie.
• Nay-Theist: Trevor hunts the supernatural monsters for a living but seems to denounce religion in general. Downplayed, that it's mostly out of spite from his family being excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
• Never Learned to Read: Played with. He can read normal Romanian text just fine. But the various languages of the books in his library are beyond him, so he can't do anything with them. Compared to Sylpha and Alucard, who are both multilingual, he's basically illiterate.
• No Place for Me There: Trevor seems to have this in mind when he confronts Death. He clearly doesn't expect to survive the confrontation, nor does he believe he's any different from the ancient monster.
  Trevor: It's time to give this place back to people who know how to build things. You and me, we're just killers out of history. It's time for us to go.
• Not So Similar: Like Dracula, he lost his loved ones to the Church and the masses who follow it blindly. Unlike Dracula, he tries to help people anyway and learns to do so without expecting anything in return.
• No Social Skills: Trevor means well but he has no real manners due to the loss of his family at a young age and his resulting disgust with the rest of humanity as a result. Lampshaded in Episode 2 of Season 2.
  Trevor: I'm a nice person. I am. I know how to be nice.
  Sypha: No, you don't.
  Trevor: I do. I'm nice to everybody.
  Sypha: Then why are most of the stories you've told me the last few days are about you arriving somewhere and then getting punched in the face?
  Trevor: That's because everyone else is a horrible piece of shit.
• Not Afraid to Die: Trevor states more than once that he isn't afraid of death. Special mention goes to the end of his fight with Alucard.
  Alucard: Do you have a god to put a last prayer to, Belmont?
  Trevor: Yeah... Dear God, please don't let the vampire's guts ruin my good tunic.
  Alucard: What? (Grunts in pain as Trevor jabs a knife into his chest) I can still rip your throat out.
  Trevor: You can. But it won't stop me staking you.
  Alucard: But you will still die.
  Trevor: But I don't care. Killing you was the point. Living through it was just a luxury.
  • He later gets to prove this in the most literal way possible, calling out the spirit of Death itself to its face to come out and face him, whilst sounding like it owes him money he's come to collect.
  Trevor: Oi, Death, I want a word with you.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Both Sypha and Alucard tease him and pretend he's a grouchy drunk, but Trevor is very perceptive. He can read the moods of other people and knows how to kill various creatures of the night. When the people of Gresit are attacked, it only takes a few seconds for Trevor to come up with an effective defensive strategy.
• Official Couple: With Sypha come Season 3.
• Oppose What You Suffered: Trevor Belmont is the last remaining member of the Belmont Family. Following centuries of hunting monsters to protect the people of Wallachia the Belmonts were falsely accused of practicing black magic by corrupt members of the clergy, leading to his ancestral home being burned down and his parents murdered when Trevor was twelve years old. Whilst this has left him cynical and jaded towards most of mankind, Trevor also possesses a deep empathy towards those who are unfairly persecuted by the Church. Protecting a nomadic group called the Speakers from being scapegoated by a corrupt bishop marks his transition from simply drifting through life to actually taking a stand in general.
• Playing with Fire: When using the Morning Star, the flail part of the weapon creates a large flame-like explosion.
• Pragmatic Hero: Trevor's more willing to get his hands dirty than Sypha or Alucard, no doubt because he's used to a lifestyle of no one helping him out of kindness. In the first episode of Season 3, he makes a deal with a civilian that will pay in coins for the teeth of a night creature Trevor killed. Sypha considers this wrong, as she'd have likely let him take the teeth for free, but Trevor points out that they need both friends and money if they want to live. She retracts her argument in the face of that logic.
• The Power of Family: If Trevor is to be believed, then his family was a happy one, despite their profession. At least up until their deaths and the whole excommunication by the church thing. Trevor even says it himself to Sypha when offering her a blanket to share with him.
  Trevor: No one was ever lonely in this house.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He doles these out quite a bit, especially to members of the Corrupt Church that excommunicated him and his family.
  • Trevor calls the Bishop of Gresit out on killing Dracula's wife and starting this whole mess because the Bishop believed she was a witch, based on practically nothing. He also pretty much spits at the Bishop's offer to leave by sundown, lest Trevor be killed along with the rest of the Speakers.
  • Trevor gives one to a priest that makes the people of Gresit realize who the real enemy is before they turn on the Church.
    Trevor: You're very big at telling other people what to do. Getting the good people of Gresit to commit murder for you. Let's see how you do on your own. You and me. I can see you're carrying a blade. I wonder if the people of the great city of Gresit have ever seen a priest draw a knife before. Your long knife. My short sword. Let's go. Come on, you had no problem beating an old man this morning. Huh? You had no problem lying to these people about the Speakers.
    Priest: The Speakers brought this upon us!
    Trevor: No, they didn't, and you know it. The Speakers stayed here to offer aid. It was your bishop who brought all this down on us. Your bishop who started it all by killing a defenseless woman. You would have made murderers out of these people, but the only one here who isn't innocent... is you.
  • He gives a short but absolutely scathing one to Varney/Death in Season 4:
    Trevor: You're only a thing. You're only an old killer. You don't make anything, you don't live — you just eat and hide.
• Red Hot Masculinity: Trevor Belmont wears a red cape. He is the more typically masculine between himself and Alucard, having Perma-Stubble, a scar over his eye, and a love for alcohol and fighting.
• Relationship Upgrade: He and Sypha start off allies in Season 1 before becoming friendlier in Season 2. By Season 3, they are in a healthy and sexually active romance.
• Relative Button: He gets insulted many a time throughout the series, but they don't faze him much. When someone insults his family however, especially by accusing them of being black magicians and monster-lovers, that's what really pisses him off.
• Scars Are Forever: He has a scar that runs across one of his eyes. This is actually a nod to Trevor in the games, who either has the same scar or is even outright missing that eye.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Trevor wore a big, fluffy cape back in Season 1 to symbolize his refusal to get involved in helping humanity. Once he drops said cloak before fighting the corrupt priests, it represents his renewed sense of duty.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Compared to many of the other characters, Trevor is rather crass, frequently using the word "fuck" in a lot of his sentences. Only the low-class drunks in a tavern are more foul-mouthed than he is.
• Smarter Than You Look: At first glance, Trevor looks like a Book Dumb drunk. However, he's smarter and more insightful than he lets on. In Season 4, he displays an extensive knowledge about special weapons and vampire physiology that even Sypha, a scholar, wasn't aware of. His knowledge allows him to discern the importance of the fragmented pieces of an enchanted dagger he finds throughout Season 4, which he assembles to help him take down Death in the finale. No doubt this is due to his family's extensive history and knowledge of the creatures of the night, as well as various means of dealing with them.
  Sypha: Huh. How do you even know that?
  Trevor: Yeah, I learned all kinds of things when I was gonna be a heroic monster hunter, remember? And then all the shit happened, and bit by bit I suppose I lost it all. And now I'm starting to pick it all up again.
• Sole Survivor: The sole surviving Belmont, and thus possibly the last professional vampire hunter of any real competence in Wallachia or even the world.
• Spectacular Spinning: Whe he finds the Cross Haladie he begins spinning it around to show off while geeking out about it's origins.
• The Strategist: When the forces of Hell descend on Gresit, Trevor quickly gets the townsfolk ready to fight with his knowledge of demon slaying. When night creatures are attacking the hold, he assigns tasks to Sypha and Alucard. When storming Dracula's castle, he's the one to lay out the battle plan to both of them as well.
• Supporting Protagonist: For the most part of Seasons 1 and 2, the story is seen from Trevor's point of view, but the story actually revolves around Dracula and his son Alucard, the latter of whom is the one who kills Dracula. In Seasons 3 and 4, he's still the supporter, but of Sypha, since she's the real leader of their duo. At the climax however, Trevor is the only one facing off against Death.
• Sword and Sorcerer: With Sypha. While she's a Speaker Magician, Trevor's a skilled weapon user, usually whips and all kinds of weaponry.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Trevor fully acknowledges that all the death and chaos in Wallachia wouldn't be happening if the Bishop hadn't murdered Dracula's wife — an innocent woman.
• Taking You with Me: Kills off with Death with a powerful ancient dagger that he knows will kill him as well but proceeds anyway to ensure such a monster can finally be defeated and leave the world at peace.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Alucard. Not only is Trevor a vampire hunter and Alucard half-vampire, they also have incompatible personalities and disagree on nearly every matter. When they aren't threatening one another, they're trading insults.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: The more time Trevor spends with his new friends (much as they like to tease him), the more he lightens up a bit. Come Seasons 3 and 4, he's still a swearing grouch, but he also smiles more and displays open concern for Sypha after her Break the Cutie moments in Season 3's finale.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Played for Laughs. Both Sypha and Alucard are dismayed at how similar they're becoming to Trevor, with Sypha angrily yelling at him that she was a Nice Girl before she met him and Alucard wondering if life was really worth living anymore.
  Sypha: I was nice! And then I met you, and now I'm like you.
  Alucard: Oh my God... I am turning into Belmont.
• Tragic Keepsake: The Belmont Hold is this for him since he's the Sole Survivor of his family and said Hold is one of the few remnants from his lineage.
• Training from Hell: Implied to have been through this as he's been surviving on his own since he was twelve. The scars visible in shirtless scenes in Season 3 show he hasn't had it easy.
• Tranquil Fury: Trevor is not one to be very stoic and is often the more emotional one of the trio but there are times he becomes very frightening whenever he gets angry.
  • The first of these moments is when he fights the two corrupt priests in Gresit to protect the Elder Speaker. He notes his disdain for priests in general and quickly maims them until they flee.
  • In Season 3 during the coda, his quick realization that the Judge, a man he genuinely respected, was a child murderer and they were standing in his trophy room with many children's shoes. During the event, Trevor has a terrifying Death Glare on his face.
• Troubled, but Cute: A hunk with Sypha also describing him as "handsome", who is the Sole Survivor of his family who were wrongfully branded as dabblers in the dark arts. He lost them sometime as a child, making him more apathetic and using alcohol as a way to cope.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Since no one knows what Dracula looks like, he assumes Alucard is Dracula when he and Sypha find him. He attempts to kill Alucard because he has fangs, was sleeping in a coffin, and the catacombs under Gresit resemble the inside of Dracula's castle.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Arguably becomes this with Alucard after defeating Dracula.
• Walking Armory: Trevor is usually packing multiple weapons including whips, swords and hidden knives and daggers. This is on top of him being excellent with improvised weapons and barehanded.
• Weak, but Skilled: Trevor is a normal human who fights monsters and vampires for a living, but due to his weapons and Belmont training he is a fearsome opponent that every creature of the night fears.
• World's Best Warrior: Though he lacks the raw power of the vampires he fights; Trevor is perhaps the single most skilled warrior in the series. He wields any weapon he picks up masterfully and doesn't even need weapons to fight; even in Season 1, where he's an alcoholic Jaded Washout, Trevor defeats armed priests, night creatures and even fights Alucard to a standstill. With the later seasons, he picks up additional weaponry and remembers more of his training, to the point where he can take down vampire generals, survives a battle with Dracula himself, kills a gigantic night creature empowered with multiple human souls, and even defeats Death himself singlehandedly. There's a reason why vampires fear the House of Belmont.
• Wrecked Weapon: He loses his Cross Haladie in the finale of Season 4 after using it to destroy the Rebis both Dracula and Lisa were trapped in. One of its' four blades impales Saint Germain accidentally, mortally wounding him.

Sypha Belnades

Voiced by: Alejandra Reynoso (English), Ayaka Shimoyamada (Japanese), Valentina Souza (Latin American Spanish), Giuliana Jakobeit (German)

"I didn't ask you to fight for me. I fight for myself."

Granddaughter of the Elder of the Speakers, Sypha is a scholar of magic and an ally of Trevor's in his quest to defeat Dracula.

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• Absurd Cutting Power: Her ice magic can create spikes and blades sharp enough to imbed themselves in solid stone and slice cleanly through vampires and Night Creatures.
• Action Girl: She's a sorceress with mastery over the elements.
• Adaptational Badass: Mind you, other versions of Sypha have been more than capable, but in this series she's pretty much a One Woman Army.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: ZigZagged. Sypha rarely appeared in canon after Dracula's Curse, and that game had little dialogue or story. Castlevania: Judgment exaggerates her into a hypocritical bigot against night creatures and people associated with them, and the third pachinko series toned her down into a more amicable character. In this series, she's squarely on Good Is Not Soft — kind, but suitably brutal in combat to match the series' tone. She also serves as the Team Mom and Only Sane Woman amongst the trio of heroes, and acts as both a Tsundere and Gadfly towards Trevor.
• Adaptation Deviation: Instead of being a member of the Church, she's the granddaughter of the Elder for a group of Speakers, a nomadic people who search and preserve history orally, rather than in writing.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Sypha's hair is strawberry blonde like her depiction in the pachislot game and the fakes in Symphony of the Night and Portrait of Ruin rather than the original game's bright flaxen tone.
• Adrenaline Makeover: A relatively minor one, but at the end of Season 2 after helping to kill Dracula and deciding to go on more adventures with Trevor, Sypha seems to have ditched her heavy Speaker robes for the blue sleeveless tunic and trousers she wore underneath.
• All-Loving Hero: A downplayed version. She's not as all-loving as Lisa but is willing to stay and help the very people who blame and persecute her family because it's the right thing to do. But she's also brutal when it comes to combat, but that's to be expected since she's fighting monsters from Hell.
• And I Must Scream: Her present predicament when she is found by Trevor, as she was turned to stone by a Cyclops. She has some awareness while trapped but unable to speak or move.
• Atomic F-Bomb: Contrasting with Trevor's Sir Swears-a-Lot and Alucard's Precision F-Strike, Sypha only swears in the final season where she lets loose with a massive "I'm fucking talking here!" while in the middle of a fight after weeks of stressful battles.
• Badass Adorable: Sypha is a cute girl who also happens to be a Black Mage who's not afraid of fighting dirty.
• Badass Bookworm: As a speaker, she has a vast knowledge of Wallachia's history and ancient languages. In Season 2, after reading the many books of the Belmont Hold (along with Alucard), she is able to magically transport Dracula's castle to the trio's area.
• Badass Creed: In "Monument", when the crowd of angry villagers accuse her of being a witch:
  Sypha: No! I am a Speaker and a scholar of magic! I serve no demon, and I do no evil!
• Bad "Bad Acting": In Season 3, she (deliberately) does a horrendous job at pretending she and Trevor are lost to lure in some demons. Trevor is exasperated by it.
• Battle Couple: With Trevor, from season 3 onwards.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Her mastery of elemental magic allows her to use her opponent's elemental attacks against them. Best showcased in Season 2: When the trio are attacked by firebreathing night creatures, Sypha utilizes her control of fire to roast those creatures with their own fire.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In the Season 2 finale, Sypha was ecstatic at the thought of adventuring with Trevor to help people. However, her optimism gets broken hard in the finale of Season 3 due to being unable to save the Lindenfeld civilians and finding out that the Judge, one of their main allies, was a Serial Killer of children.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's the nicest of the trio and also quite the deadly fighter.
• Black Mage: She is this in function and the fact that she uses offensive magic. She's a magician of the Speakers, and versed in manipulating the elements. From a story standpoint, she's a White Mage as the powers she evokes come from nature and those In-Universe who are truly witches and black mages explicitly draw their powers from hell.
• Blood Knight: She turns out to gain a rather disturbingly enthusiastic taste for fighting and adventure by Season 3. This seems to have changed during the finale after she finds out about the Judge being a cold-blooded murderer, thus changing her entire mood about adventuring and fighting monsters. Sypha admits in Season 4 that she got caught up in the adventure, so she makes sure to put her non-combat-related knowledge into helping others improve their lives.
• Blow You Away: As a scholar of magic, Sypha has the ability to manipulate air.
• Blue Is Heroic: She wears blue clothing, like her fellow Speakers, and is one of the three main heroes of the story.
• Boyish Short Hair: Unlike the game, where Sypha has long hair she keeps hidden in her robes, this incarnation has her hair cut short. She says the boyish looks make it safer to travel on the roads.
• Break the Cutie: She starts out Season 3 very excitable and idealistic before the events really do a number on her, being unable to save the village of Lindenfeld from the cultists and discovering that the friendly judge was actually Evil All Along} which turns her very bitter and angry.
• Can't Stay Normal: Sypha says that after all the amazing things she's done since joining Trevor's quest to defeat Dracula, she doesn't want to just be a normal Speaker. Even after Dracula is gone, she jumps at the chance for another adventure with Trevor. And later becomes a part of the new village being built around the Belmont Hold and Dracula's Castle rather than find her caravan once more.
• Character Development: Due to her Speaker life, Sypha had a somewhat sheltered upbringing, but her adventures with Trevor and Alucard helps expand her knowledge and she becomes more daring.
• Combat Pragmatist: Her methods of fighting demons can be downright nasty, including freezing a bucket of holy water solid so that shards of ice will explode out and stab the foes.
• Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: She's not all that grateful to Trevor for saving her from a very slow and painful death under the curse of the Cyclops due to his surliness and contempt for her attempts to find the Sleeping Soldier. She even expresses a desire to trick him into drinking her urine as punishment for being "rude". Downplayed in that later she comes to save him from an angry mob and backs him unwaveringly against Alucard because I Owe You My Life. She may not like him, but that doesn't mean she wasn't grateful.
• Costume Evolution: In Season 3, she discards most of her Speakers' cloak in favor of having more room to maneuver.
• Cultural Rebel: While she is every bit as selfless and knowledge hungry as any other Speaker, in Season 2 she outright states that her people's way of not writing things down is stupid after seeing the vast amount of knowledge the Belmont library could hold. In Season 3, she starts to really enjoy hunting monsters and having adventures compared to the Speakers' more pacifistic ways.
• Cute Witch: Well, "cute scholar of magic" but she is well versed in magic and the arcane arts, able to identify what a sigil means in season 3. She develops into a skilled combat magical fighter as well, but never loses her beauty and good heart.
• Dark and Troubled Past: A downplayed and implied version. Sypha was apparently raised by her grandfather, but they have a loving bond and she was surrounded by her Speaker family as well. And prior to meeting Trevor, she and her people were often scapegoated for Dracula's rampage despite that not being true.
• Deadpan Snarker: Despite her Nice Girl personality, when she's annoyed, she can get pretty sassy.
• Elemental Powers: Sypha reveals that she practices elemental magic, predominantly using ice, fire, and occasionally lightning to defend people and vanquish the monsters. She also uses wind very briefly in Seasons 1, 2, and 4, and rarely uses liquid water, mostly as a conduit for lightning attacks.
• Elemental Weapon: Occasionally she will use her ice spikes for melee combat. In Season 4, she creates an Energy Bow made of lightning.
• Facepalm of Doom: Delivers a flaming one to a vampire general, which kills him.
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. Sypha knows she has greater knowledge and intellect compared to her companions, which leads to overconfidence and assuming her first assessment of the facts must be the right one. If she had remembered the bigger picture instead of focusing on the cult, the massacre of Lindenfeld may have been avoided.
• Fiery Redhead: Inverted. Sypha is the only redhead of the trio, but she's calm and level-headed, as well as being the most mature of the trio.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Just like in the source material, her main spells are elemental in nature. She tends toward the first two, leaving lightning for rare displays of more power when needed.
• Full-Contact Magic: While not completely physical in that she still casts from a distance, Sypha's magic is controlled with various gestures and arm-motions. She is capable of short-range explosions and stabbing weapons, however.
• Genki Girl: As part of her Character Development, the closer she becomes to Trevor and Alucard, the giddier and more excitable she gets. After she successfully teleports Dracula's Castle right above the Belmont Hold, she cheerfully claps and congratulates herself....before realizing the Castle could bury them any second. Goes almost into full-on Flanderization mode in Season 3 where the smallest prospect of an adventure with Trevor turns her into a little kid on a sugar-high. The finale breaks this HARD.
• Good Is Not Soft: She's easily the nicest of the trio, but her mastery of magic gives her some very creative ways to kill enemies. The best example of this is the first fight scene in Season 2, where she uses her fire magic against a monster that breathes fire, controlling the blaze while it's inside the monster and blowing it up.
• Grew a Spine: This is the result of the events of Season 3, in contrast to Taking a Level in Cynic. After what happened with the Judge, she becomes tired of simply playing along and being a passive actor in someone else's "story". She refuses to simply play along with others' requests, takes it upon herself to do what needs to be done, and to hell with anyone that tries to stop her.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Her magical combat style is more focused on distance than Trevor's more hands-on fighting.
• Hand on Womb: As she tells Alucard her plans to leave and rejoin her coven, she places her hand over her stomach as she tells him she's also doing this because she's pregnant.
• Hand Signals: Sypha does this when performing her magic.
• Hates Being Alone: Her personal conflict in Season 2. She's spent her whole life in the company of her caravan, so parting from them has made her feel lonely.
• Heal It With Fire: Dracula slashes her shoulder early into the final battle, but she covers her hand with flame and burns the wound so she can keep fighting. It gets properly patched up afterward, but the scars remain.
• Hunter of Monsters: Starting in Season 2 and continuing into the third, she has come to enjoy the killing of monsters who hunt and hurt innocent people.
• I Choose to Stay: Of a sort. She tries to leave to search for the Speakers to have them take care of her while she's pregnant. But Alucard persuades her to stay, which does make her reconsider. But when Trevor turns out to be alive after his fight with Death, she finally chooses to stay at Belmont.
• An Ice Person: As a scholar of magic, Sypha can summon and use ice as a weapon.
• Implied Love Interest: She seems to be interested in Trevor even upon their first meeting in Season 1, and outright blushes when Alucard hints at her possible attraction. This evolves into antagonistic flirting in Season 2, and they finally consummate their relationship during their travels across the backcountry between Seasons 2 and 3.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Sypha has blue eyes that represent her caring, heroic, Nice Girl personality. Her worldview gets shattered a bit in Season 3, but she doesn't lose hope during Season 4 as she wants to do whatever she can to keep the world as safe as she can.
• Insistent Terminology: She's not a witch: she is a magician, or a scholar of magic. There actually is a difference, with witches making pacts with demons for their power.
  • Which is a change from the games, where Sypha was explicitly called a witch.
• In the Hood: Her outfit comes with a hood and she's seen using it to hide her face in the opening sequence and just before the battle in Episode 2 of Season 2.
• I Owe You My Life: While Sypha was initially not happy with Trevor being her rescuer because of his rudeness, she ultimately shows her appreciation by saving him from a mob and Alucard.
• Jesus Was Way Cool: In a dialogue with Saint-Germain, she reveals that while she's got issues with God, she really likes his son Yeshua and states that it's natural for a child to surpass the parent. It's rather surprising coming from a Speaker, who is considered an enemy of God and refuses to worship him. It also puts Sypha's beliefs into question as while the Speakers at first appear to be Gnostics who were this trope under the notion that YHWH hid knowledge, Jesus represented the true God who sought to save humanity. However as Sypha believes that Jesus is the son of God and not an incarnation of him, she appears to be some weird off shoot of this trope, neither Gnostic nor Christian. Alucard and Trevor seem to be aware something is off about how she deals with this trope.
• Jumped at the Call: At the end of Season 2, Sypha decides she wants to have more adventures with Trevor and do more good around the world.
• The Kirk: She acts as the balancing force between Alucard and Trevor in Season 2, criticizing Trevor's boorish apathy and overall stunted emotional state and using jabs to evoke his inner goodness while also criticizing Alucard's coldness and detached stoicism by questioning his emotional motives and mocking how he's putting on a cold front to hide his inner personal doubts.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": In Season 3, she absolutely gushes while remembering her and Trevor's encounter with evil flying goats.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: By the finale, she is able to incorporate physical attacks with her magic and is able to fight up close, such as by using ice to create bladed weapons.
• Lady of Black Magic: A composed, level-headed scholar with great power over elemental magic. Her blue robe is a subtle way of accentuating her femininity. The Black Magic is averted though; her offensive spells are not drawn from hell but the elements of nature instead, making it White Magic.
• Lightning Can Do Anything: Averted and inverted. Sypha's elemental magic more strictly follows Magic A Is Magic A than other magic in the setting, compared to Alucard's, for example. Additionally, she's more creative in her use of Fire and Ice magic, using the former to fly, both to make barriers or blades, and the latter to freeze, manipulate holy water, and make platforms and shields. Her lightning is almost exclusively used to electrocute. However, the spell used to teleport Dracula's castle is a lightning spell.
• Love Confession: Sypha's in "It's Been a Strange Ride" fits the flow of the series rather nicely.
  Sypha: (face turned away) You are a rude idiot, Trevor Belmont!
  Trevor: I know.
  Sypha: (looks back at him with a smile and glimmering eyes) And I love you.
  Trevor: ...I know.
• Made of Iron: A downplayed version. She's not as physically tough as Trevor or Alucard, given that the former has been fighting monsters most of his life while the latter is a dhampyr. However, she has shown to be more physically enhanced than most people as she survived getting slashed by Dracula, who can usually kill mortals with a single attack.
• Making a Splash: Her magic allows her to summon and control water, though mostly in the form of ice.
• Meaningful Name: Sypha is a Punny Name for "cipher," a code or enigma. Considering the fact that her true nature was hidden in the beginning of the series, it's quite fitting. It's also a Mythology Gag to the original game where her gender was only known in the ending after she took her hood off.
• More Deadly Than the Male: When the trio of heroes kick in Castle Dracula's front door and start a killing spree through all the elder vampires, Sypha actually racks up more of a bodycount than Alucard or Trevor.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: She (a Speaker Magician) becomes an Official Couple with Trevor (a Badass Normal monster hunter).
• Nay-Theist: In an amusing moment, she casually reveals that the Speakers consider themselves to be enemies of God on account of the story of the Tower of Babel in which God destroys the ability for humans to cooperate out of jealousy. Both Trevor and Alucard, who are more familiar with religion, are a bit surprised by this. Sypha's interpretation matches the literal text of the story but she's unaware that the story isn't seen that way in any of the Abrahamic religions (where God struck down the Tower of Babel as the King who was building it specifically wanted to reach Heaven and make war against God). She does go on record saying that Jesus Was Way Cool in Season 3 despite Jesus either being God in human form or his literal son as Sypha believes, a son that wants his father worshipped. Both Trevor and Alucard's looks indicate something is off about how the speakers view things.
• New Child Left Behind: She finds out she's pregnant after Trevor's disappearance, and she goes out to find the Speakers so they can take care of her and the baby when it's born. Later subverted when Trevor's actually alive and she chooses to stay in Belmont.
• Neutral Female: She spends the majority of Trevor and Alucard's fight on the sidelines until the two of them are locked in a Mexican Standoff and she threatens to incinerate Alucard should he harm Trevor. Justified: she's primarily a ranged fighter, and Trevor and Alucard are fighting with swords. Plus, as she puts it, Alucard may be the sleeping soldier, but Trevor saved her life, so she is torn between duty and debt.
• Nice Girl: Of the trio, Sypha is the one who is consistently polite and mature.
• Not Quite Flight: She can use her fire magic to create jets of flame that propel her and keep her in the air and use ice magic to summon Stepping Stones in the Sky
• Not So Above It All: While Sypha is generally more rational than Trevor or Alucard, she still has several comedic moments and bouts of incompetence, showing she's pretty similar to them deep down.
• Official Couple: With Trevor come Season 3.
• Omniglot: The second season reveals that Sypha can read and speak a large variety of languages, including the original human language spoken by Adam and Eve. She states her education would be lacking if she found text to remember but couldn't read it.
• Only Sane Woman: Effectively this due to Trevor being a drunken burnout and Alucard a sullen teenager.
• Playing with Fire: As a scholar of magic, Sypha can summon and use fire as a weapon.
• Pregnant Badass: Considering Trevor could tell she was with child, it's likely she'd been pregnant for weeks through all the fighting.
• Raised by Grandparents: Implied. The Elder of the Speakers is her grandfather and there are no mentions of her parents.
• Relationship Upgrade: She and Trevor start off allies in Season 1 before becoming friendlier in Season 2. By Season 3, they are in a healthy and sexually active romance.
• Samus Is a Girl: The Speakers only speak of her in gender-neutral pronouns (including referring to her as "them" rather than "her") seemingly for little to no reason other than to set up a reveal. Sypha later explains it's safer for the women to travel this way; with Sypha already isolated in a town that hates them, it makes perfect sense in retrospect for the Speakers not to advertise to a stranger that the person they're looking for is a young woman.
  • However, unlike the NES game, which depicted her as a mysterious hooded figure of ambiguous gender, here she gets revealed early on, as Trevor recognizes her as a woman as soon as she de-petrifies. Her feminine features have also been made more blatant since this version rarely pulls up her hood.
• Scars Are Forever: Season 3 shows that the cuts she received from Dracula on her arm have become scars.
• Shock and Awe: As a scholar of magic, Sypha can summon and use lightning as a weapon. She can even lace her arm with it, turning it into an Absurdly Sharp Blade.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Sypha is initially put off by Trevor because of his rude and aloof attitude. She gradually sees his more positive sides (i.e., bravery, selflessness, dutiful, etc.) as they spend time together. By the third season, she is in a happy and healthy relationship with him.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only woman of the main protagonists.
• Spicy Latina: Inverted. Sypha is an attractive Hispanic woman, but instead of being a violent Ms. Fanservice example, she dresses in a more conservative manner and is also quite level-headed.
• Squishy Wizard: Downplayed: while Sypha is easily the least physically resilient of the three and often has to rely on her impressive magical abilities to keep enemies at bay, she seems to be tougher than most ordinary people, as she survives falling into the catacombs of Gresit, and even takes physical attacks from Dracula and survives. In other words, she's really only a Squishy Wizard in comparison to Alucard and Trevor.
• Sword and Sorcerer: With Trevor. While she's a Speaker Magician, he's a skilled weapon user.
• Taken for Granite: Her predicament when she went to find the Sleeping Soldier — the Cyclops had turned her into stone. Fortunately, Trevor killed the monster, which freed Sypha from her imprisonment.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Sypha concludes her stay at Lindenfeld embittered, betrayed, cynical, and angry after not only failing to save all the now-dead people of said village from being sacrificed, but discovering that the Judge was a serial killer of children. Played for Laughs in the following weeks when she starts using profanity and blaming being around Trevor for it.
• Tsundere: A mixed variant. While she'll readily freeze Trevor's beers when he claims that "[the beer] is better than sex" while pissed at him, the both of them have a healthy relationship and sex life during the time they spend together.
• Undying Loyalty: Is readily willing to burn Alucard to ash when he has Trevor at fang-point, because the latter saved her life.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: Sypha learns the downside of this practice in Season 3, where she and Trevor take too much time in confronting the priory, leading to all of Lindenfeld's population being sacrificed to the Stranger. Even after they defeat it, she's horrified to discover that the Judge they had trusted was a serial killer. In Season 4, Trevor encourages her to not just react, but also act, so Sypha takes to coordinating Targoviste's reconstruction and shows backbone when Zamfir protests her efforts.
• Virginity Makes You Stupid: Averted: it's heavily implied she'd never had sex before meeting Trevor, but she's by far the smarter of them.
• Weak, but Skilled: Sypha may just be a normal human woman, but she is also an incredibly powerful mage who is not only able to burn, freeze, or electrocute any opponent she meets, she's also incredibly creative with her powers. Tellingly, in the assault on Dracula's castle alongside the last son of a legendary family of vampire hunters and the child of lord Dracula himself, Sypha is the one who kills the most number of elder vampires.
• White Magic: Sypha's powers come from study and drawing energy from the elements of nature. While not divine or drawn from a god(s), her magics are clearly benevolent and don't defy the natural order of the universe. Black Magic does exist in this universe and anyone who explicitly uses darker magic is drawing their powers from hell or demons.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Not to the point of being naïve, but she believes wholly in the legend of the sleeping soldier and the work of the Speakers, contrasting Trevor's apathetic bitterness and Alucard's icy stoicism. Said idealism is tragically proven wrong in the worst way possible, as she discovers the Judge of Lindenfeld, who she considered one of several newfound allies, has been a serial killer amongst watching Lindenfeld supernaturally burn as it's citizens are sacrificed via a demonic ritual and absorbed.
• You Didn't Ask: Her response when Trevor asks why she didn't tell him she was a magician.

Adrian "Alucard" Ţepeş

Alucard in Season 1

^{Alucard in Season 4.} 

Voiced by: James Callis (English), Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), José Antonio Macías (Latin American Spanish), Araceli Romero (Latin American Spanish, child), Sven Gerhardt (German)

"We are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes."

The dhampyr son of Dracula and Lisa Ţepeş, Alucard seeks to end his father's genocidal campaign.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: Some of Trevor's antics amuse him; for example, when Alucard comments sadly that he had a better childhood than Trevor did, Trevor responds with, "And your dad's fucking Dracula," which gets a laugh out of him.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Unlike the video games, Alucard truly loved his father and fighting Dracula was not easy for him.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Has sex with a man and woman at the same time in Season 3. His sexuality was later confirmed by the director on Twitter as bi. While this is a time-honored tradition for vampires, it's a change from the games, where he was only Ship Teased with two women (one being non-canon).
• Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed. Alucard uses his post-Symphony of the Night design, but is much weaker than he was in that game. That said, he has several abilities he couldn't use in Castlevania 3, and trades in his famously useless Orb of Destruction spell for a grab bag of superpowers that showed up in later games. The implication is he will grow into what he was in SOTN onwards.
• Adaptation Deviation: In the games, Alucard disappeared after Dracula's Curse and didn't reemerge until Symphony of the Night. The explanation given was that he had plunged his vampiric powers deep within and gone into a deep slumber, one that was supposed to be eternal (but then, well...Symphony of the Night happened). Here, he sticks around after Dracula's defeat, claiming his father's castle for himself.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His wolf form has pure white fur, as opposed to purple and brown like in Symphony of the Night.
• Alucard: As in the games, he uses this name to symbolize his opposition to his father.
• Animorphism: In the extended opening credits, Alucard transforms into a wolf and a swarm of bats. He does transform into a wolf when fighting against Dracula's generals in Season 2. He also transforms into both a wolf and a swarm of bats in the penultimate episode of Season 4.
• Badass Bookworm: Both Alucard's parents where scholars and he raised as a scholar first and displays knowledge of science and magic. Nevertheless, he's incredibly badass due to his heritage.
• Badass Cape: He wears one in Season 4.
• Badass Longcoat: He wears his signature black and gold frock coat.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Just as in the games, Alucard can use most of the same powers as the vampires. We see him turn into a wolf and a swarm of bats, float, and use his signature Flash Step. It's also implied that Alucard is more powerful than the other vampires, second only to Dracula himself. He only ever uses his powers for good, even after he hits rock bottom.
• Bait-and-Switch: Delivers a truly fantastic one at the end of the first episode of Season 4. One expects him to acknowledge his behavior's troubling similarities to that of his father, but instead he says this:
  Alucard: Oh my god... I'm turning into Belmont!
• Balls of Steel: During their fight, Trevor attempts to knee Alucard in the groin, but it doesn't work.
  Alucard: Please, this isn't a bar fight. Have some class.
• Berserk Button: Surprisingly, Alucard holds a degree of pride in his heritage and is disgusted by the Belmont hold's macabre collection of vampire remains and anti-vampire weapons. He refers to the Belmont Hold as a "museum dedicated to the extermination of my people".
• Beware the Nice Ones: The ending of Season 3 reveals that he doesn’t take kindly to betrayal. After Sumi and Taka try to assassinate him despite his kindness, he kills them in self-defense and then impales their bodies near his castle’s doors as a warning to strangers.
• BFS: An interesting case in that, while his sword is almost as long as he is, it's blade isn't too thick or wide. Being reasonably thin allowing him to pull a One-Handed Zweihänder even without his Super-Strength. Sumi complain about it's length when training with Alucard.
• Big Brother Mentor: In Season 3, he tries to be this to Sumi and Taka, teaching them how to fight vampires while also regularly making them meals. It backfires when they grow paranoid and attempt to kill him.
• Big Good: Despite being Dracula's dhampir son, Alucard stands up to his father to protect humanity in order to honor his mother's memory.
• Broken Ace: While Sypha is a Glass Cannon Squishy Wizard and Trevor is a Badass Normal Hunter of Monsters, Alucard stands out as being a super strong and fast Lightning Bruiser with all of the vampiric strengths and none of the weaknesses. In addition, he also has supernatural abilities like teleportation, flight, telekinesis, shapeshifting, and presumably other abilities. Out of the trio, he gives Dracula the hardest fight and lasts the longest. In a year, he had to deal with his mother's senseless murder AND his father going mad with grief (to the point of attacking his own son); little surprise this ends with him breaking down in tears after being forced to kill said father.
  • And then in Season 3, it gets worse. After Trevor and Sypha leave, he spends so much time alone in his castle he doesn't know how long it's been. When two new young people come into his life, he ends up teaching them and forming an almost-familial bond with them. Then the pair get dissatisfied with their teachings and lure him into a threesome in an attempt to kill him, and he has to kill them in self-defense, leaving him just as alone as he was at the start of the season but in a much darker place now.
• Byronic Hero: He's a handsome, troubled, brooding half-vampire who is trying to come to terms with his mother's death, and is determined to take his father down, despite how much that pains him.
• Cape Wings: In Season 4, his cape displays the ability to transform into a pair of wings allowing him to briefly fly.
• Cassandra Truth: In Season 3, Sumi and Taka become Improperly Paranoid towards him, convinced that the castle's teleporting engine can still be used and that Alucard is choosing not to use it (when it actually is broken beyond repair) and that he is willfully keeping various secrets from them (when really there are too many fantastical things to show them in so short a time and he is trying to focus on training them like they asked). They are eventually driven to try and kill him, convinced that he is plotting something like so many others have.
• Chef of Iron: The first and second season establishes him as a skilled and powerful warrior. The third season demonstrates his skills at cooking.
• Child of Two Worlds: Half vampire, half human. He ends up standing up against vampires and the forces of evil, though admittedly at first more to honor his mother than for humanity itself. He also seems to identify as a vampire rather than human or dhampyr, seeing as he had to explain to Sypha why he wasn't impressed with the Belmont library despite his kind's propensity towards Always Chaotic Evil (and may also explain why he's so antagonistic towards Trevor).
• Child Soldier: Implied by Sypha, who suggests Alucard is an angry teenager in an adult body when he says he aged rapidly compared to humans. It's entirely possible, since the oldest he could be is nineteen or twenty, and Alucard does act like a child forced to go to war. Amazingly, he doesn't have any of the usual problematic hang-ups associated with this trope, since one brief childhood flashback shows him as a perfectly happy and adjusted kid beloved by his parents.
• Cultured Badass: A well-educated young man who happens to be a talented artist and cook. He's also capable of kicking a lot of ass.
• Curtains Match the Window: Gold hair that matches gold eyes.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Downplayed. There are many implications throughout Season 2 that he had a decent but rapid childhood and had a healthy, loving relationship with both his parents. However, a year prior to the series, his mother Lisa was accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake. His father Dracula went insane with grief and rage and decided to Kill All Humans. When Alucard tried to reason with Dracula not to do it, Alucard received a horrible injury for his trouble and was forced to go into a year-long sleep to heal from it.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's a dhampyr, wears black clothing, and, unlike his father, is a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire.
• Daywalking Vampire: Unlike other vampires, Alucard isn't burned by daylight. He attributes this to being half-human.
• Deadpan Snarker: Alucard has one hell of a dry wit on him, never changing expression as he delivers a snarky one-liner. Though with him, that's probably not saying much.
• Demoted to Extra: While he has an arc of his own, he's completely disconnected from the main plot of Season 3.
• Deuteragonist: Alucard is one of the central focuses of the story and his importance is second only to Dracula in Seasons 1 and 2.
• Dhampyr: As the son of Dracula and a mortal woman. Although everyone refers to him as a vampire, even himself.
• Disc-One Final Boss: The final battle of Season 1 is not against Dracula's forces, but between Trevor and Alucard after Trevor mistakes him for Dracula, and Alucard wants to test this Belmont scion for his suitability for the task at hand.
• Drowning My Sorrows: :He's been drowning himself in wine by Season 4 due to Sumi and Taka's attempt on his life. After finding new purpose in helping Greta's people, he quickly sobers up.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Trevor's pretty laid-back with most of Alucard's jabs, but tossing insults at the Belmont keep — the only remaining relic of his entire family's legacy — wears thin on his patience fast.
• Establishing Character Moment: In his first scene, he tries to plead with his father to spare mankind for Lisa's death, showcasing his stoic manner, and trying to appeal to his father's better nature by pointing out it is not what Lisa would have wanted.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • His Establishing Character Moment is telling Dracula that he can't kill all the humans for what a handful of them did to his mother. Alucard is fine with avenging his mother, but not to a disproportionate point. Sadly, Dracula takes the opportunity to wound him.
  • He is unnerved being in the Belmonts' library, due to it being a monument dedicated to hunting vampires. He especially fixates his eyes on the trophy case of skulls gathered by Belmonts, where a smaller skull is amongst the larger ones.
• Family of Choice: He sort of adopts Trevor and Sypha as his family, although he won't admit it aloud. While he was incredibly hesitant at first, he starts to adopt the refugees of Danesti as his family. With even the children beginning to refer to him as "father".
• Flash Step: He has this in his repertoire of supernatural powers, which he uses for casual evasion, or for rapidly attacking someone from multiple angles when he really exerts this power.
• Flying Weapon: Thanks to his telekinesis, he sometimes has his sword attack other opponents while he uses his many abilities to focus on one. Sometimes it almost appears to be acting out of its own volition.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: He is a half-vampire firmly on the side of good.
• Friend to All Children: He's awkward about it at first, but he does have a soft spot for children. He even plays with a few of the Danesti children by jumping off of the castle roof, falling down towards them and only halting midair when he's right above them to say, "Boo". He also didn't have the heart to tell some of them to not call him father as he felt it would make them sad.
• The Gadfly: Season 2 has Alucard try to rile up Trevor by either jokingly mocking him or the Belmonts. Sypha calls him out on this saying he is only trying to provoke Trevor to make him prove himself over and over again.
• Genius Bruiser: He's strong enough to go toe to toe with his father Dracula, and he's multilingual and understands how to use many of his father's technologies, including setting up electricity in the Belmont Hold.
• Gentleman Snarker: Is actually full of just as many sarcastic barbs as Trevor, but does so rather eloquently every time.
• The Gift: Alucard is only half vampire and yet he's stronger than any of the full vampires due to being Dracula's son. Godbrand states that Alucard is in the same league as Dracula power-wise (though not on the same level). Considering that he's at least strong enough to knock his dad around and Dracula absolutely butchers anyone else who fights him, this shows just how strong Alucard really is.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Living on his own after the departure of Trevor and Sypha, Alucard spends his life with a daily routine of fishing and foraging for food. As he sits down to eat his exquisitely-prepared meal, he has an argument with dolls modeled after Trevor and Sypha (almost perfectly imitating their voices) before concluding, "Oh my God. I am losing my mind. It's only been a month. I think." He decides to take Sumi and Taka as students due to his loneliness. He confesses to them that he isn't entirely sure if he had been there for months or years.
• Good is Not Nice: Alucard has a standoffish demeanor and makes unnecessary jabs at Trevor's family, but he's dedicated to stopping his grief-maddened father.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: His hair is a very pale platinum blond — a color inherited from his pure-hearted mother, whom he loves dearly and for whom he champions humanity. He can also be very polite when he's not busy snarking with his allies.
• Half-Breed Angst: Actually completely averted. While Alucard opposes any vampires who harm humans, he feels no shame for being half vampire. He actually seems to take a sort of pride in his heritage, as he refers to vampirekind as "my people" and has more than a few criticisms for human ignorance and the Belmont's legacy of vampire hunting.
• Healing Factor: Can easily heal from the damages Trevor and other opponents inflict upon him. However, some of his wounds don't heal that quickly, such as the scar he got from his father that remains across his torso.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: His main weapon is a longsword.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He turns out to be a talented artist when he draws portraits of his parents with a stick in the dirt.
  • In Season 3, it turns out he's a great cook and likes it enough that he'll happily cook every meal for 3 people.
• Hotter and Sexier: While the games did acknowledge his attractiveness, he was never particularly sexualised. This time around, he is given an introductory Shirtless Scene and his costume design draws attention to his lean wiry figure and long legs and is later given a sex scene.
• Hybrid Power: Alucard has all the strengths of a vampire (up to surpassing full vampires because his dad is Dracula) but none of the weaknesses because his mom was human. Full sunlight doesn't seem to bother him, and he enjoys eating garlic.
• Hypocrite: Alucard points out Trevor's immaturity, but he's also a Manchild himself.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Defied. Prior to Lisa's death, it's heavily implied that Alucard had a healthy, loving relationship with his father. But unlike the games where he absolutely hated Dracula, Alucard in the show still loves his father, but knows he has to put him down before he wipes out mankind.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • His Establishing Character Moment has him state to his grief-stricken father that only the ones directly responsible for Lisa's death should be killed. He's a Good is Not Nice hero but one thinking clearly.
  • Alucard comes off as a jerk when pointing out a number of Trevor's flaws (alcoholism, self-destructiveness, etc.) to Sypha, but he's not entirely wrong.
  • His jabs at the Belmont Family are not funny as Trevor points out but his mild disgust at the underground base is understandable given it's like a trophy room for the killings of his kind. One of which included the skull of child vampire.
  • During his battle with his father, Alucard accurately points out that Dracula wants to die, Lisa's death being the catalyst for it, and that his war against humanity is his attempt at suicide.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. While Alucard is fairly more polite than the surly Trevor, he still can make uncalled for jabs and Sypha notes that when you're around him, it's like being near a "cold spot".
• Kill the Ones You Love:
  • He is ultimately the one to stake Dracula... because he allowed him to after going through a Heel Realization.
  • While there is Questionable Consent involved, Alucard was developing a close friendship with Sumi and Taka and he was clearly falling for their Honey Trap. The fact that killing them in self-defense caused him to put their bodies on stakes to ward off visitors is a sign that it did not do his fragile emotional state any favors.
• Knightly Sword and Shield: In Season 4, he adds his shield from Symphony Of The Night into his arsenal, using it in conjuction with his long sword (sometimes even without). Fighting very efficiently with it both defensively and offensively.
• Lightning Bruiser: Is fast, can teleport, and hits extremely hard, on top of his grab bag of other powers, including a Healing Factor which allows him to recover easily from hits from Trevor's whip, which earlier destroyed a hellspawn in a single blow.
• Like Parent, Like Child:
  • Alucard inherited his father's intelligence, deadliness in combat, and aloof nature. Season 3 has him stake Sumi and Taka after they tried to kill him as a warning to others to stay away from him just like his father. Luckily, Season 4 shows us he's inherited his dad's taste in women too. Greta pulls him out of his funk and gets him smiling again.
  • He inherited his mother's class and kindness.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: His Implied Love Interest is VERY similar to his mom.
• Lonely Doll Girl: A male example, of course. After claiming Dracula's castle for himself, he goes a bit off the deep end from the isolation, and even goes so far as to sew crude dolls of Trevor and Sypha to have make-believe squabbles with.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Contrasting with Trevor, Alucard has fine, slender features that contribute to his good looks. His long blond hair also helps to complement said features.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: In Season 4, he carries the same vertically long shield he had in Symphony Of The Night. Using it skillfully with his sword to better defend (both himself and others) from all sorts of attacks. As well as bash any of his enemies' faces in, when his sword is not in his hand. As to be expected, whatever it's made out of is extremely durable.
• Luminescent Blush: He has a small blush on his face during one of his conversations with Greta.
• Magic Knight: Alucard's vampire heritage gives him limited inborn magical abilities — Flash Step, telekinesis and shapeshifting as well has superior speed and strength and he mixes those abilities with his swordfighting. True to this trope he contrasts Sypha and Trevor, they lack his raw power but he lacks their sheer versatility and mastery of respectively magic and fighting.
• Magic Versus Science: Averted, as he explains to Sumi and Taka — he sees both as just different sides of the same coin and will happily use both. This was after the pair were amazed to see electric lights and thought that lightning bottles were a magical phenomenon.
• Manchild: A pretty downplayed example and justified. Apparently due to being a dhampyr, Alucard grew to physical maturity very quickly. And that combined with his constant petty jabs and insults at Trevor has Sypha suspect that inside, he's still just an angry teenager inside an adult's body. And despite the airs he constantly puts on, he gets incredibly lonely very quickly, experiencing a subdued Sanity Slippage just one month after Trevor and Sypha departed. And he's immortal.
• Manly Tears: See Not So Stoic below.
• Master of the Levitating Blades: While he only has one blade, he definitely puts his telekinesis to good use by pulling some pretty impressive feats with his sword whenever he has it flying.
• Master Swordsman: Easily able to keep up with Trevor. And this is when he's recovering from a horrible injury and not even aiming to kill. Another impressive thing is that his sword is as tall as he is, and he till uses it with incredible finesse and skill.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His birth name, Adrian, is French for "the dark one". Fitting for a dhampyr who wears mainly black clothing.
  • Alucard — the name the Wallachians know him by — is Dracula spelled backwards.
• Mind over Matter: Alucard can control his long sword telekinetically and uses it quite a lot to attack opponents from afar or take them by surprise. Sometimes it even fights on it's own while he's busy taking on other opponents. Overall his sword sometimes acts very similarly to the Sword Familiar from the games.
• Missing Reflection: Not entirely, but as a half-vampire, his reflection in a mirror is semi-transparent.
• Mistaken Identity: At first, Trevor assumes Alucard to be Dracula when they first meet mostly due to the former never having seen Dracula. But assumed he was thanks to what he could gather.^note ike the room where they were in looking like something inside Dracula's castle and Alucard sleeping in a coffin. Although the two clear things up after their fight.
• Momma's Boy: The reason Alucard didn't join his father in eradicating all human life is because he wanted to honor his mother's dying wish to forgive them.
• Morality Pet: Zigzagged. In their first scene together, Dracula scarred his son when the latter suggests not killing all of humanity. And during their fight in Season 2, if one were to look closely, Dracula may be punching his son but he's not using his claws (which are more fatal) like he was with Trevor and Sypha. And upon having a Heel Realization, he allows Alucard to stake him.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's quite handsome, and is frequently shown shirtless.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: A Rare Male Example. His coat in Season 4 has reveals his chest and consequently the scar there. Which somewhat mirrors Alucard's outfit in the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow's continuity.^note Which makes his fear of being more like Trevor Belmont ironic, in that. In said game's continuity Trevor and Alucard are one in the same.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Alucard starts Season 3 so lonely that he willingly takes in Sumi and Taka as their monster hunter mentor for some company. After their betrayal, he stakes their corpses in front of his castle as a warning to leave him alone.
• Noble Wolf: Downplayed, as Alucard can transform into a wolf but's he still a heroic Anti-Hero.
• Noodle Incident: When Trevor knees him in the groin during their fight, Alucard tells him "this isn't a bar fight", which heavily implies he might have been in one at some point.
• No-Sell: Alucard cares nothing for Trevor's Groin Attack.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: Alucard's outfit of choice for most of Season 4. He does put a shirt on when he isn't wearing the coat in battle.
• Not So Above It All: Alucard, who treats his duel with Trevor as a very serious matter and even admonishes him for using a Groin Attack ("Have some class"), finally just ends the fight by punching Trevor square in the face. In Season 2, he shows that for all his serious and somber disposition, he is not above pushing Trevor's buttons and at one point flips him off.
• Not So Stoic:
  • In Season 2's final scene, he finally breaks down in tears when in complete solitude in Castlevania due to grieving for both of his parents' deaths, one of them by his own hand.
  • After being forced to kill Sumi and Taka in self-defense, he breaks down in his childhood room over his isolation once again at the end of Season 3.
• One-Handed Zweihänder: Alucard's sword is nearly as tall as he is, yet he wields it with the ease of a fencer.^note The blade, however, is rather thin for its length, which, in addition to Alucard's natural vampiric strength, downplays this to a reasonable level.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name, Adrian, is said exactly three times across four seasons, twice by himself and once by Saint Germain. To everyone else, he's simply Alucard.
• Parental Substitute: Once he brings the people of Danesti to the castle, Alucard has a little fun with the orphaned children, and once the Final Battle is over, Greta notes that some of them have taken to calling him "father." Alucard is worried about disappointing them, but definitely touched.
• Patchwork Kids: Alucard essentially looks like a half-and-half mix of his parents, retaining his mother's hair color and facial structure with some of the harder angles from his father's face, as well as the latter's vampirism.
• Patricide: He kills his father Dracula at the end of Season 2 — at Dracula's own request.
• Power Floats: He floats ethereally during his introductory dialogue, earning him the moniker "Floating Vampire Jesus" from Trevor.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: In more of a Cold Ham kind of way, but he has a few.
  • Before facing down a half-dozen demons in an ambush, Alucard draws his sword and stares them down.
    Alucard: No further.
  • When the trio of heroes finally make it inside of Dracula's Castle, they face down the vampire council. Alucard gets the ball rolling with only one word:
    Alucard: Begin.
• Precision F-Strike: Used on a throwaway gag when he says "Yes, fuck you" to Trevor. He also flips him off after finally defeating Dracula.
• Rapid Aging: Alucard aged quickly from childhood into what he is now thanks to his mixed lineage. Sypha compares him to an angry teenager in a man's body.
• Red Baron: "The Sleeping Soldier".
  • The name “Alucard” itself probably qualifies, since it is a name the people of Wallachia begin calling him that he decides to adopt to symbolize his opposition to his father. In Season 4, Saint Germain becomes only the second person in the entire franchise to address him by his given name.
• Sanity Slippage: Played for Laughs. After Trevor and Sypha leaves, he lives on his own and made dolls of them due to loneliness. He even lampshades it.
  Alucard: Oh, my God. I am losing my mind.
• Scars Are Forever: Despite being almost as powerful as his father, the scar on his chest that he received from him never completely healed. Even in his wolf form he still retains the scar.
• Sealed Good in a Can: A self-imposed case. After his failed attempt to stop his father, Alucard sealed himself inside a coffin in the catacombs underneath the village of Gresit for a year to heal the wounds Dracula inflicted.
• Secret Test of Character: The reason for Alucard's fight against Trevor at the end of Season 1 was to test if Trevor and Sypha had the will to face and defeat Dracula. In Season 2, Sypha states that the reason for Alucard's snarks against Trevor is that he's still unsure if Trevor can help him.
• Shield Bash: With his new shield in Season 4, it's not only used to protect himself. But he can also use the shield as a weapon when he's busy having his sword telekinetically cut people apart. He even uses his Super-Strength and Super-Speed to make sure those bashes hurt by charging into his opponents.
• Simple, yet Opulent: His outfit is based on his design from Symphony of the Night, and retains its high-class look, but is significantly simplified. Word of God has confirmed that this was done largely because the detail of the original design would have been extremely difficult to animate during action scenes. It also has the side effect of making him look younger.
• Slept Through the Apocalypse: The wound Dracula gave him when Alucard tried to stop him from summoning his Legions of Hell was bad enough that he had to sleep for a year to recover. By the time Trevor and Sypha find him, Gresit is one of the last major settlements in Wallachia.
• Sophisticated as Hell: He's dignified, aloof, and gracious… and all too willing to squabble with Trevor, not to mention surprisingly potty-mouthed.
• Spell My Name with a "The": Inverted
  Alucard: “To the Alucard of the castle...” [tuts] Why am I the Alucard now?
• The Stoic: Par for the course with his character. While his father demonstrates his anger by trashing his laboratory and loudly declaring that all of Wallachia shall pay, Alucard calmly implores him to let it go as he himself also grieves for his mother's death.
• Strong and Skilled: Alucard has a very refined sort of fighting style while having the immense strength to back it up. Subverted when going up against his father Dracula, who is much more powerful.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Alucard is fairly polite and heroic, but is also more aloof than his peers, with Sypha even comparing him to a "cold spot" in the room.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Alucard has bright, golden eyes, a visual reminder that he's not fully human.
• Superpower Lottery: Big winner here. He has all of vampiric strengths, and is stronger than most full vampires to boot because his dad is the Vampire Lord Dracula. However, because his mom was human, he has none of their weaknesses to things like sunlight and running water. He also has another often missed dhampyr advantage in that while he can consume blood for strength, he doesn't need it, and unlike a full vampire will not weaken due to not feeding. Given that Godbrand suspected that Dracula wasn't at his best because he didn't seem to be feeding on blood, this was a huge benefit in their rematch.
• Super-Speed: A part of his many abilities, when he uses them his body is sometimes covered in a bright red aura that leaves a trail of it as he moves around.
• Super-Strength: Another one of his abilities; leads to a funny moment where Trevor struggles just to move one rock to clear a pile, while Alucard can toss them all away as if they were mere pebbles while Trevor and Sypha watch incredulously.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Trevor. Not only is Trevor a vampire hunter and Alucard half-vampire, they also have incompatible personalities and disagree on nearly every matter. When they aren't threatening one another, they're trading insults.
• Token Heroic Orc: He's the only benevolent "monster".
• Took a Level in Cynic: He wasn't in a very good place at the end of Season 2, but the end of Season 3 makes it even worse. Sumi and Taka betraying Alucard and trying to kill him mid-coitus over their paranoia really sets him off. He ends up crying to himself and putting both of their corpses on pikes outside of his castle as a warning. His tone of voice as he walks back inside also shows how he's slipping further into darkness. Played for Laughs weeks later when he feels crappy realizing he's turning into Trevor. Fortunately, he's not too cynical as to refuse helping others in their time of need.
• Troubled, but Cute: A Pretty Boy dhampyr who is dealing with the unjust murder of his mother and how his father went mad with grief.
• Vague Age: He plays coy with his actual age, but he can't be older than twenty, given the series timeline.
• Vampires Are Sex Gods: Subverted. Alucard certainly looks the part between his good looks and constantly open shirts, but when Sumi and Taka come into his bedroom to seduce and have sex with him — he's astonished and out of his element. So he's completely the passive bottom partner with the two of them. This contrasts with the scene between Lenore and Hector which happened concurrently with his.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Arguably becomes this with Trevor after defeating Dracula.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: As per the games, Alucard can shapeshift at will, just like his father. He can turn into a white wolf, and also can turn into an entire swarm of bats instead of just one. (Presumably, he can also turn into Super Smoke like his video game counterpart, though this is never shown.)
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He spends the majority of his meeting with Trevor and Sypha without his shirt. He dons his shirt and coat when the fighting is over.
  • In Season 4, he is wearing only the coat without the shirt. Showing the scars he got from Sumi and Taka in Season 3.
• What Does She See in Him?: Downplayed since the actual Ship Tease between Trevor and Sypha is rather subtle, but midway through the second season, an annoyed Alucard ends up confronting Sypha over the fact that she is too distracted spending time with Trevor rather than completing her research on how to get to Dracula.
• White Wolves Are Special: Alucard is a heroic vampire who can transform into a white wolf.
• Wine Is Classy: Season 3 shows that the cool and classy Alucard usually drinks wine with his meals.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Alucard can't be older than 20, as his parents only met 20 years before the main story begins. He is, however, incredibly intelligent and deeply wise, coming off as someone with centuries of experience rather than the young man he actually is. Having said that, he does display some manchild traits in Season 2.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: The reason Alucard went into a slumber was to heal the wound that Dracula inflicted upon him after he tried to stop him from summoning a demon army. He can regenerate simple wounds well enough, as Trevor later finds out.
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Laments that Dracula has gone insane, recognizing that as a centuries-old scientific and mystical mind, the Monster Lord could have potentially changed the world for the better with the information he has at his disposal, and that, by killing him, that repository will be lost.
• You Know I'm Black, Right?: When Sypha prods Alucard to admit he's impressed by the Belmont keep, he dryly reminds her they're essentially in a museum dedicated to his kind's destruction.
• Younger Than He Looks: He doesn't specify his age (given the series timeline, it can't be older than twenty), but apparently being half-vampire and half-human made him mature really fast. Sypha even describes him as being like an angry teenager inside of an adult's body. Which, while surprises Alucard, he doesn't try to disprove it either.

Allies, Associates and Family

Lisa Ţepeş

Voiced by: Emily Swallow (English), Azuma Tanaka (Japanese), Dulce Guerrero (Latin American), Gunthild Eberhard (German)

"They could stop living such short, scared lives if only they had some real medicine!"

A woman from Lupu Village who comes to Dracula's castle hoping to learn medicine.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Her video game counterpart didn't give her any backstory but this adaptation implies she faced prejudice for seeking medical knowledege.
• Adaptational Badass: She traveled all the way to Dracula's castle, which was at that time stationed in a barren wasteland littered with skeletons on pikes, just to try and convince him to teach her science so she could become a proper doctor.
• Agent Scully: Subverted. This appears to be part of the reason why a force like Dracula didn't scare Lisa. As a woman of science, she didn't believe stories about him being a vampire with connections to Hell were true.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She won't beg for herself, but she will for her killers' lives, knowing that her death will drive Dracula over the edge.
• All-Loving Hero: While she was burning at the stake, her last words were of begging forgiveness for her killers.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Implied. When Dracula makes a comment suggesting she's interested in witchcraft, she says not to mistake her for a witch, adding that "everybody out there already does that".
• Ambiguous Situation: In the series finale, after being brought back from the dead with Dracula, both of them make it clear they have no idea what happened or what they even are now. Are they truly alive again? Are they undead? Is she part vampire and Dracula part human since they were resurrected from the same body that then got cut in half? All they really know is that they have a second chance together in the land of the living.
• Back from the Dead: Is resurrected alongside Dracula in the finale. They opt not to rejoin their son just yet and instead travel abroad for the time being.
• Badass Bookworm: She storms Castlevania to ask its lord for scientific knowledge, medical science specifically.
• Born in the Wrong Century: Deconstructed. Lisa lives in a medieval time period but already has a forward thinking mind when it comes to medicine and doesn't believe in superstition. However, it's this same thinking that led to her being framed for witchcraft and burned at the stake.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: She's an All-Loving Hero who believes in the best of humanity while Dracula's a Broken Ace recluse who is extremely cynical.
• Burn the Witch!: Her fate, as her medicine is taken for witchcraft.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Lisa most positive character trait and her Fatal Flaw. She wanted to learn real medicine to help people in need.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: She was burned at the stake. There's even a scene of her skeleton being reduced to ashes.
• Collateral Angst: Her death purely serves to motivate Dracula's anger.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Downplayed. Lisa's first meeting with Dracula had her chastising an immortal and immensely powerful vampire for being rude. The two hit it off not long after.
• Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Starts a romance, marriage, and family with the infamous, terrible vampire lord, Dracula.
• Didn't Think This Through: When the Priest arrives and questions her about what she is doing, Lisa attempts to explain, only for him to brush her off as a witch. In her desperation, she tried to warn him that hurting her would be extremely bad, but this comment came after she had already stated that science had nothing to do with any religion. As a result, the Priest takes her warning as a threat from Satan, and thus goes from simply arresting her to burning her at the stake. While she might have already been doomed, there's no doubt she made the situation much worse in her panic.
• Easy Road to Hell: Despite her goodness, in Season 3 the Infinite Corridor reveals she's in Hell, though at least Dracula is currently with her. As of the series epilogue, this might be subverted; it's revealed that she and Dracula had to go through quite a few trials to reunite in the afterlife, and only Dracula mentions being in hell, implying that they were in some sort of neutral/Purgatory location.
• Establishing Character Moment: Walks up to Dracula's castle and bangs on his door, and asks him to help her become a doctor. When he tries to scare her, she tells him off for his rudeness and that he should travel the world like people do. She also encourages him to use his wealth of knowledge to make the world better. A determined and outspoken young woman who is an All-Loving Hero through and through.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Lisa's first appearance has her hair in a braided ponytail, but a later portrait shows her hair looser after marrying Dracula. Unfortunately, she suffers a Traumatic Haircut after being captured by the Bishop.
• Face Death with Dignity: Downplayed. In her final moments, she is visibly crying and in pain, but she doesn't break.
• Fatal Flaw: Her Chronic Hero Syndrome. She was so dedicated to helping people that it never occurred to her to prepare for actual nasty fanatics to deliberately misinterpret her good work, or for petty wisewomen to rat her out to the church. This ends up getting her killed, and she's unable to stop the ensuing bloodshed that she foresees.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: She was a woman of science, and did not believe in magic and superstition. Her scientific approach largely proved effective, but she still lived in a world where the existence of vampires, demons, and magic is a demonstrable fact.
• Flower Motifs: The Madonna Lily. The unnamed kindly woman who informed her husband of her death brings a bouquet at their now burned down home to pay respect. Lisa's portrait consists of her also holding a bouquet of them. And they represent "mourning love", as Dracula is driven crazy with grief after learning of her senseless death.
• Good Parents: She deeply loved Alucard from childhood.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Lisa had bright, blond hair and wanted to help others with actual medicine.
• Happily Married: Though not fully shown, Dracula and Lisa apparently had a loving marriage. He traveled the world as a man at her request, and even though she missed him deeply, she was still happy of the things he taught her.
• Heroic Bastard: Implied. Lisa introduces herself to Dracula as "Lisa, from the Village of Lupu", not adding a surname. During the time of the Middle Ages, which the series is roughly set in, people who were born out of wedlock usually didn't have a family name. Thus, it's highly likely she was born out of wedlock. Nonetheless, she was a compassionate, kind-hearted woman who could even bring out the humanity of Dracula.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Dracula completely towers over Lisa, as she's barely towards his waist.
• I Can Change My Beloved: A unique, non-abusive example. When they first meet, Lisa decided to teach Dracula the benefits of helping humans with knowledge simply to make the world better. Her husband would later state that he only "lived as a man" for her sake.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Lisa had blue eyes and was an optimistic, friendly All-Loving Hero.
• Interspecies Romance: She (a human) would fall in love, marry, and have a child with Dracula (a vampire).
• Intro-Only Point of View: The prologue shows her convincing Dracula to teach her medicine, before cutting ahead a couple of decades to show her being burnt at the stake.
• Irony: A kind, selfless, and virtuous woman who was even a Messianic Archetype is revealed to be in Hell in Season 3.
• I Warned You: She tried desperately to warn the Bishop about what Dracula would do if he found out what he was doing, but her pleas fell on deaf ears.
• Last Request: When Trevor asks Alucard why he's willing to stop Dracula even if it means killing him, Alucard's answer is because it's what his mother would have wanted.
• Leitmotif: "Lisa of Lupu".
• Living Emotional Crutch: Dracula was at least willing to walk among men for her sake and she tried to curb his misanthropic views with her love. When she dies, he commits to killing all humans in revenge for her death.
• The Lost Lenore: Dracula loved her dearly, and her death at the stake drives him to exterminate humanity in revenge.
  Dracula: "Kill everything you see. Kill them all. And once Targoviste has been made into a graveyard for my love, go forth into the country. Go now. Go to all the cities of Wallachia: Arges! Severin! Gresit! Chilia! Enisara! Go now and kill. Kill for my love! Kill for the only true love I ever knew. Kill for the endless lifetime of hate before me."
• Madonna Archetype: While Prior Sala's Satanic Cult sees Dracula as their Dark Messiah, they seem to think of Lisa as a holy (or unholy) mother waiting for them in Hell. Turns out he was not too far off.
• Mayfly–December Romance: She is a mortal woman who fell in love with and married an immortal vampire (Dracula). Lisa dies before him but only because she was unjustly executed by humans.
• Meaningful Rename: Justified. Lisa introduces herself to Dracula as "Lisa, from the Village of Lupu", meaning she may not have had a family name. However, after marrying Dracula, she takes his last name.
• Messianic Archetype: Lisa goes off to help those in need through science, is branded a witch, and sentenced to death. And as she's about to be executed, she looks up into the sky and begs an unseen person (her husband, Dracula) to spare her killers, saying they don't understand what they're doing.
• Morality Chain: To Dracula, something she's blatantly aware of and is deeply afraid he'll slip back hard into his murderous ways if anything bad happens to her. She inspired Dracula's desire to travel, so he travels like a man. When he comes back, he finds out that Lisa was killed, so he unleashes Hell on Earth for revenge as she predicted.
  Dracula: I'm not going to get better without you.
  Lisa: And I was never going to be better without you.
• Morality Pet: Downplayed. Dracula had apparently stopped staking humans long before they met but Lisa's presence had her husband attempt to interact with humans on her behalf. It's all but stated that if the Church hadn't taken and murdered her when they did, she would've become a straight example of the trope, but her unjust death undid the positive influence she'd been having on Dracula's character before it could fully stick.
• Motherly Side Plait: Lisa wears her blonde hair in a thick plait over her shoulder during her first scenes, which also establish her as a caring and pragmatic person who has enough warmth and courage to win over Dracula himself. In keeping with the trend in anime, she's also doomed (although her hair appears to have been cut short prior to her execution, possibly by her captors).
• Muggle–Mage Romance: Combined with Interspecies Romance with Dracula. While he's a Monster Lord who has centuries worth of magical knowledge, his wife, Lisa, is a normal human trained in medical science.
• Naked on Arrival: The last episode implies that she and Dracula were naked when they came back to life because it's mentioned that they had to steal clothes.
• Nerves of Steel: Downplayed. When Dracula tries to intimidate her, Lisa is visibly scared, but manages to calm down to tell off the vampire for being rude to her.
• Nice Girl: Lisa was a kind and caring woman. She even pleaded for Dracula not to kill the people who wanted her to burn at the stake. Among her musings after their return to life is guilt about having to steal the clothes they now wear. Lisa insists that they at least do something for the people the clothes originally belonged to (she's less guilty about picking another man's pocket, which Dracula notes, but in her defense, that one was a pig).
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Lisa traveled to Dracula's home to learn science to better help others. Twenty years later, she is sentenced to death via burning at the stake for performing "witchcraft". Also the reason why she was alone at home? She had suggested her husband travel to study humanity. Season 3 later makes it worse by revealing she was sentenced to Hell after her death despite her good-doing.
• Not Afraid to Die: When Lisa is arrested by the Church and realizes she's going to be burned at the stake, she doesn't fear for her life, but the lives of Wallachia, knowing that Dracula will exact revenge when he finds out what happened. Even while burning at the stake, she desperately pleads to Dracula not to harm the humans, putting them above herself in her final moments.
• Not So Above It All: Lisa, possibly the most virtuous character in the show, has few qualms picking a headman's pocket after she and Dracula are brought Back from the Dead. Because he was "a pig."
• Older Than They Look: At the time of her death, Lisa must have been in her mid-late 40s at least after a 20 year time skip from the prologue, but looks the same as she did when she first met Dracula.
• Opposites Attract: Lisa is an All-Loving Hero with a deep need to help humanity and is quite forgiving; Dracula was noted to be The Dreaded among humans and monsters, had a deep prejudice and cynicism regarding humanity (save a few), and would go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge if greatly angered. And the two were Happily Married.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Being burnt at the stake causes Dracula's rampage.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Downplayed. Lisa was always Dracula's love interest from the games but he also had a first wife before her. Here, it's never mentioned that he had a wife before Lisa and he stated that she was the "only true love" he ever had.
• Rags to Riches: Implied. When Lisa is first introduced she had no last name and wore what can be presumed to be peasant clothing, while Dracula had a last name and wore presumably expensive-looking clothes. After marrying him, Lisa wore more middle to upper class garb.
• Refuge in Audacity: Had the moxie to tell Dracula he was being rude for a host to his face. Inexplicably, Dracula was charmed.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Her first scene has her wearing peasant clothing. After marrying Dracula, she then wore upper to middle class garb. At her death, she was seen in a white dress, presumably her undergarment.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She fell in love with Dracula because of his intelligence, willingness to teach her medicine, and belief that he could change for the better.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Dracula was her science/medical teacher when they first met. Their relationship would transform into love, marriage, and the birth of their son.
• Together in Death: She's shown together with Dracula in Hell in Season 3, despite always being seen to be a kind and virtuous woman. Though it should be noted neither she nor Vlad appeared to be inconvenienced by where they’re at either. It's possible she chose to be in Hell with her husband of her own free will. Half-subverted come Season 4's finale: they're somehow brought back to life, but are still very much together.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Her total on-screen time is counted in mere minutes. She's nice, then she's summarily executed.
• Traumatic Haircut: It's shown in Season 2 that the Inquisition cut her Motherly Side Plait after her imprisonment and she was burned at the stake this way.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Lisa genuinely believed in helping people and making the world a better place, even truly thinking Dracula could teach humans his knowledge.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: When they first meet, Dracula states that Lisa is "not like any human [he's] met before". After her murder, Dracula angrily shouts at Alucard that Lisa was the only reason to justify human life.
• You Are Worth Hell: Possibly. In Season 3, she's seen in Hell with Dracula. Since she was a kind and virtuous person in life, she was either condemned for having loved a monster, or she chose to go with him. Given that they get out, as mentioned, it's possible it was just Purgatory.

The Speakers

"We carry with us the accumulated wisdom of this great country. We will use that to fight our battle."

— Sypha Belnades

A clan of nomadic scholars who keep an extensive oral history.

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• Ancient Keeper: The Speakers guard several secrets and mysteries, including magical knowledge.
• Badass Pacifist: Speakers are said not to fight, though that doesn't stop people like Sypha using magic when it is called for.
• Barefoot Sage: They wear long robes with hoods and open-toed sandals, akin to a monastic order, and don't change footwear even in winter (perhaps they are not afraid of cold due to their magical powers). During her adventures with Trevor, however, Sypha changed from her Speaker robe to more practical clothing and started wearing boots.
• Berserk Button: Generally it seems to be suggesting they write down their stories instead of just memorizing it. Trevor's father got in a fist fight with a Speaker suggesting it and one Speaker in Season 1 seemed offended when Trevor recalled the tale.
• Canon Foreigner: Created exclusively for the series.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus: As a group of mystics associated with knowledge in an open state of defiance against not only the church but even God, they are very obviously fantasy Cathars and other neo-Gnostic groups. Season 3 reinforces this view when Sypha admits admiring Jesus for his sacrifice, which reflects the Cathar view of two Gods, one good and the other evil. However, the Speakers view Jesus as God's son instead of being an unconnected entity like in Gnosticism.
• Face Death with Dignity: When threatened with impending death by corrupt priests leading a pogrom against the Speakers, all of the Speakers are ready to die to try and verbally dissuade the victims of lies and fear and hatred.
• Magical Jew: They are a persecuted and highly educated nomadic religious minority who harbour several powerful mages, as part of their general interest in science and learning. The show never says outright that they're Jewish, but they do drop the odd bit of Hebrew, and Sypha refers to Jesus as Yeshua. Ironically they also hate the Jewish God YHWH for supposedly hiding knowledge, but given that they also view Jesus as a good man that was God's son, they violate the views of Gnostics, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. For what it's worth, this confusion is lampshaded by Alucard who believes they are remembering things wrong upon hearing their version of the tower of Babel.
• Noodle Incident: Trevor mentions that his father picked a fight with the Speakers once when he tried to force them to write down their knowledge.
• Put on a Bus: Or rather "Put on a Carriage" as they are sent away at the start of Season 2 while waving goodbye to Sypha.
• Rage Against the Heavens: They consider themselves the "enemies of God" because they collect information to counter God’s attempt to separate man after the Tower of Babel. The fact that they simultaneously believe Jesus was good and sacrificed himself however, puts a weird hole in this, further lampshaded by Alucard being off put by their Babel narrative that discounts the Tower being an active act against God.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: For safety, the Speakers dress their women as men for travel, an action which mostly seems to be traveling with their hoods up which makes them all uniform and hard to identify. When the group is seen together with their hoods down, a couple of women are amongst their number.
• Wandering Culture: They are a nomadic tribe who have their culture preserved in the form of oral stories.

Elder Speaker

Voiced by: Tony Amendola (English), Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese), Pedro D'Aguillón Jr. (Latin American Spanish)

"Does one run away when someone tells lies about them?"

As his title implies, he is the Elder of the Codrii Speakers who reside in Gresit, as well as Sypha's grandfather.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: He lightly rebukes Trevor for resorting to violence to fend off the corrupt clergy, but smirks and chuckles that he appreciates it.
• Big Good: He holds the position in the first season arc where his kindness, hospitality, and good nature erode some of Trevor's cynicism and Trevor grows to be willing to fight the pogrom being rilled up against the Speakers. He also refuses to leave the people of this city when they are in need, both survival and spiritual, even after learning the Bishop is sending people to kill them.
• Cool Old Guy: He's a kind and helpful old man with enough patience to put up with Trevor's sour attitude.
• Face Death with Dignity: When a priest is about to kill the Elder, the latter is rather serene about it.
  "Will killing an old man make you less scared of the dark?"
• I Owe You My Life: He's very grateful for Trevor saving his and, later on, Sypha's life.
• Nice Guy: A helpful, friendly, and kind-hearted man.
• No Name Given: Everyone calls him the Elder. Belnades is possibly his family name like his granddaughter, but that's it.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Either his daughter or son passed away before the start of the series.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Speakers are known to carry stories from the future as well as the past. One of these stories is a prophecy about a soldier sleeping under Gresit (Alucard), a hunter (Trevor) and a scholar (Sypha) rising up to defeat Dracula. Sypha admits in the Season 1 finale that this was the reason her grandfather kept trying to convince Trevor to stay with them, and why Sypha went into the catacombs in the first place.

Count Saint Germain

Voiced by: Bill Nighy (English), Eiji Hanawa (Japanese), José Luis Orozco (Latin American Spanish)

A mysterious visitor to Lindenfeld who crosses paths with Trevor and Sypha.

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• Adaptational Wimp: In Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Saint Germain was a Time Master due to being a guardian of cosmic balance, capable of rewinding or stopping time, used a Sword and Gun and was a very challenging boss fight. Here, he is a completely mundane magician who, while claiming to be immortal, is only capable of performing simple tricks and is far from being a fighter.
• Adaptational Villainy: The original Saint Germain was a guardian of the time stream, implied to be in league with Aeon from Castlevania Judgement, and originally fought Hector only to prevent Dracula's resurrection. This version is a straightforward Arc Villain, at least at first.
• A God Am I: Declares himself to be God Himself while he's binding Dracula and Lisa's souls together to form the Rebis.
• All for Nothing: After all the troubles he goes through to reunite with his lover, she just coldly walks away and leaves him to die.
• Amazon Chaser: Fell for his lover after he warned her of a man about to grope her and she beat the shit out of the creep in front of him.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • At the end of Season 3, he manages to reunite with his loved one but gets stuck in the same dimension as her. However, he manages to send one final message to Trevor and Sypha thanking them for the help and saying they will see each other again. Season 4 confirms that he is still not reunited with her, and his attempt to actually do so drives much of the plot..
  • Though he is shown dying at the end, his finger briefly twitches in a later scene. Whether or not this means that he somehow survives is unknown.
• Arc Villain: Of Season 4 except not really, as it turns out he was just being manipulated by Death.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: As Trevor fights Death and Germain seems to have died to his wounds, his hand twitches. Two weeks later when Trevor manages to get back to Alucard's castle, he says that Germain had opened a portal for him, but he had to travel the rest of the way. Germain likely did this because Trevor and Sypha had attempted to help him in the past and he wanted to make amends for getting tricked by Death by allowing Trevor to return home to his loved ones.
• Been There, Shaped History: He claims to have personally invented absinthe, amongst more obscure admissions.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Real life alchemist Count of Saint Germain helps a couple of monster hunters foil the plot of a mad cult to open a portal to Hell, while pursuing a personal agenda to find a pathway to other dimensions. Some 240 years before his actual date of birth.
  • His supposed date of birth, anyway. In fairness, the historical Count Saint Germain did claim to be Really 700 Years Old.
• Beneath the Mask: Saint Germain presents himself as a pretentious smooth-talker, but deep down he's very lonely, desperate to find his loved one and struggling to not give up hope on his quest.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Spends most of Season 4 still presenting himself as the same charming old man he was in Season 3, only this time he is secretly out for everyone's blood.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: It's shown that he is extremely skilled in alchemy, enough to create the fabled Rebis, but he doesn't commit himself to it. As soon as he's motivated, he becomes the villain in Season 4.
• Can't Tie His Tie: Saint Germain's ascot is never tied, except in his nightmare/flashback to a time spent in the Infinite Corridor. It may be symbolic of his commitment to his search taking a turn to desperation.
• Classy Cane: Carries around an ornate gray and gold cane as part of his attire.
• Cowardly Lion: He's got no combat ability and his magic mostly consists of simple, small tricks. Not to mention he's very reluctant to actually get near any dangerous situations. However, during the final battle, not only was he able to leap onto and ride the monster that was giving Trevor so much trouble but he also forced the beast to change the portal's destination from Hell to the dimension of his lost loved one, jump in and gave Trevor the opening to finish off the beast so the portal would close. Needless to say, without his efforts, the group would have outright failed.
  Trevor: He really is a magician.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has plenty of quips for different situations and few qualms saying them out loud.
  Saint Germain: (sees Trevor and Sypha's cart roll into the village pulling a dead werewolf in tow) Well, this is new.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In Season 4, he's so confident in his own importance in Varney's scheme that he slaps Dragan to shut him up.
• Disappointed by the Motive: After Prior Sala and his men sacrificed the townspeople of Lindenfeld, he's actually amazed that they would go to these lengths just to revive Dracula.
• Establishing Character Moment: He’s introduced haggling with a local vendor over the cost of apples, showing him to be socially conscious and a smooth-talker... even if he failed to budge her on the price. He attempts to pay with foreign currency, proving he's well-traveled, and uses magic, alcheny, or sleight of hand to produce more coins out of thin air, showing he isn't just a boastful charlatan.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": We never do learn his real name, as he only ever introduces himself as the Count Saint Germain.
• Face–Heel Turn: He becomes one of the primary villains of Season 4, and is responsible for causing much of the destruction during it.
• Foil: To the Judge due to both of them being Trevor and Sypha's main allies in Lindenfeld. Saint Germain is a pretentious smooth-talking visitor who wears flamboyant and colorful clothes compared to the Judge, who's the straight-laced ruler of Lindenfeld who wears simplistic black robes. While Saint Germain seems fishy at first, he is benevolent — his actions stop Dracula's revival; the Judge, on the other hand, appears to be a Reasonable Authority Figure but is actually a serial killer.
• Futile Hand Reach: In a flashback, he tries to reach out for his loved one in the Infinite Corridor, but she retracts her outstretched hand and instead throws him the jewel to help him track her down again.
• Gentleman Wizard: He’s more of a gentleman than a wizard, as he mainly uses his social skills to ingratiate himself to others and achieve his goals, with his magic being shown as mostly a tool to further grease his financial and social wheels; aside from his abilities with the Infinite Corridor.
• Hero of Another Story: From what little he divulges, his quest to find the Infinite Corridor and get to his loved one has been quite the adventure.
• Historical Domain Superperson: Like his video game counterpart, he's the historical Count Saint-Germain, albeit a very loose depiction of the man. He is even seen writing in a triangular journal, a reference to the real St. Germain's Triangular Book. The historical figure was indeed a philosopher and alchemist who claimed to have traveled the world and lived for centuries; Castlevania decides to interpret that as truth.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Trevor believes that Saint Germain's quick willingness to share his story with both him and Sypha shows he's quite lonely and in need of friends.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Trevor's knife breaks and ends up impaling Germain in the chest as he fights off against Death.
• Informed Attribute: He casually claims to be immortal, which absolutely no one believes the claim and it's quickly brushed off as nonsense. It's unknown if he truly is The Ageless or has some sort of Resurrective Immortality like his game counterpart, as while he's shown to have travel the world, there's no telling how much time had passed. Come Season 4, and it seems he was exaggerating about his "immortality".
• In Name Only: Takes very little from his Castlevania counterpart, lacking the relationship of arch enemies with Death, his time mastery, his competence, Stealth Mentor to Hector, and his very notable status of being the only character to break the fourth wall. In fact, it's not hard to consider them separate characters entirely.
• I Will Find You: He lost someone important in the Infinite Corridor and is dedicated to finding them.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Starts off demanding information on the Infinite Corridor. Ends up killing people left and right in order to be reunited with his lover.
• Love Makes You Evil: A chat with Death inside the Infinite Corridor made him understand that he won't ever be able to reunite with his beloved if he doesn't acquire control over said Infinite Corridor. He plays right into Death's hands when he decides to yank Dracula and Lisa out of Hell and sacrifices townsfolk from Greta's community to do so. Nevertheless, that doesn't stop him from pulling a My God, What Have I Done? at the last moment and going against Death's orders, dying in the process.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction word-for-word upon realizing what Death has made him do.
• Mysterious Past: Everything about Saint Germain, from his real name to who he is looking for and how they ended up at the mercy of the Infinite Corridor, has yet to be fully explained. Season 4 reveals that he used to work for many noble courts, only to be cast out every time and forced to look for a less prestigious position.
• Never My Fault:
  • In Season 4, he kills a man to obtain information, then screams "Why did you make me do that?!". It gets worse from there.
• Non-Action Guy: Doesn't actively participate in fighting the same way Alucard, Trevor and Sypha do. His first meeting with Alucard he walks out of the latrine with Alucard even asking if he had been hiding in there the whole time.
  Germain: (nervously) Oh? Was that the latrine? I thought I heard someone was hiding in there because... they were... scared...
• The Noodle Incident: He's a magnet for them, having jumped all over the world. Many of them involved getting completely shitfaced with aristocrats.
• Please, I Will Do Anything!: He begs the keeper of the Infinite Corridor to at least give him a clue on how to find his loved one again. When she asks him if he was willing to do anything as an alchemist to achieve his goals, he immediately agrees. He later finds out that Death had played him and he had fallen right into their hands.
• Redemption Equals Death: Upon realizing what he has done, he tries to redeem himself by giving Trevor an opening to take out the Rebis. This causes one of Trevor's blades to hit him as well, and he bleeds out. His final action is to save Trevor from dying in the resulting explosion by throwing him into the Infinite Corridor.
• Riches to Rags: He goes from working in lavish palaces to progressively poorer places. Just prior to the series, he has been reduced to working in a completely dysfunctional court, with drunken fools everywhere. Season 4 shows this clearer as he becomes less and less enthused as he tries to offer his services.
• Sanity Slippage: Has one in Season 4 where he kills a man who had been helping him get information on how to get back into the Infinite Corridor. He's at first horrified at what he'd done because he didn't like the idea of killing someone. But then he quickly flips that over to blaming the man for not helping him.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: There's a shiftiness about Saint Germain that makes Trevor, Sypha, and the Judge wary of him. However, he wants to meet his goal while causing as little harm as possible. What transpires in between Season 3 and 4 causes him to change his tune.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Downplayed. He is a great scholar and alchemist, but his claim that he's an advisor to the many great courts of europe doesn't mention the part where he's been thrown out for being useless to most of them. Most kings and nobles have little interest in the alchemical arts.
• The Smart Guy: Saint Germain is well versed in many different languages and intellectual fields, which he uses to con his way into the priory. He recognizes alchemical signs and how they translate to a philosophical sense. Also, he shows quite a bit of knowledge in the Infinite Corridor.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He is really not impressed with the collective I.Q. of the people around him.
  Saint Germain: Of course, I will triumph. How could it be otherwise? I am immortal and glorious, and all these other people smell of piss.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He and his vampire conspirators don't like each other, with one of them even saying that he will kill him as soon as the job is done.
• Tragic Villain: In Season 4, Saint Germain turns out to be nothing but a pawn of Death. Despite giving up all his morals and dignity to try and just see his loved one a final time, he ends up with nothing but his own misdeeds and the murders he's committed. After freaking out about it, he's just barely able to pull a Redemption Equals Death, having given up everything for a goal he had to watch slip away before his very eyes.
• Unwitting Pawn: He spends the entirety of Season 4 as a puppet of Death, which is ironic because he is trying to do the same thing to his vampire allies.
• Useless Accessory: He wears an hourglass on a large gold necklace, which doesn't seem to have any purpose other than showing off his status and possibly referencing his videogame counterpart. In Season 4, he swaps it for something a bit more functional.
• Weirdness Magnet: He lampshades this multiple times when talking to Trevor and Sypha, also offhandedly mentioning multiple noodle incidents that he gets into in his travels.
• You Remind Me of X: At first, Trevor's very distrustful of Count of Saint Germain but after learning of the Count's true motive, he sympathizes with the Count's loneliness due to it reminding him of Alucard's... and perhaps his own.

Zamfir

Voiced by: Toks Olagundoye (English), Akeno Watanabe (Japanese), Stefanie Gándara (Latin American Spanish)

"I went insane the day Dracula hit the city. I saw his face in the sky. It was like the devil himself punched the world. How could you not lose your mind, seeing hell touch your home?"

The only remaining noble and Head Guard to the Underground Court of Targoviste. Fighting against night creatures trying to keep some of the remaining townspeople safe.

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• Ambiguously Brown: She's a dark-skinned lady with a fairly modern haircut, a Romanian name, and a British accent. She's one hell of a melting pot.
  • Despite her modern haircut, she physically resembles a Roma, and they were an important minority in the 14th century in the Romanian territories of those times. The problem is that their social status as robes wouldn't allow them to have the status Zamfir is enjoying.
• At Least I Admit It: When called crazy by Sypha, Zamfir stuns her when she quickly agrees with her and points out how no one can survive the hell she's been through and stay sane.
• Badass Normal: While she's a terrible leader, Zamfir really can hold her own and kill night creatures in combat.
• Believing Their Own Lies: She's seemingly a selfish Bad Boss who's guarding the Royal Family so that those above ground go through sub-optimal conditions while those of higher standing prosper. Turns out she legitimately does believe she is protecting Targoviste's royalty, but those below ground are only the smallest bit better than those above it, and she refuses to do anything about it since it's supposed to be the King and Queen's job to fix everything and fully believes they will. For this reason Sypha goes from being dismissive and frustrated with Zamfir to giving her sympathy and encouragement.
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: While her claims the royal family was just sleeping is bunk, her belief they were wizards might not have been far from the truth. Targoviste's catacombs include all sorts of impressive relics including a magic mirror and an enchanted dagger originally forged with the intent to kill God.
• Crazy Sane: She legitimately believes that Targoviste's King and Queen are merely in a death-like state and that they will come back to life at any moment to save them all. When Sypha calls her insane, Zamfir agrees, making a point that no one could witness Dracula and his armies massacring people by the hundreds and come out of it unscathed. Even after Sypha confronts her delusions, Zamfir remains genuinely confused and seems on the verge of a total breakdown.
• Establishing Character Moment: We are introduced to Zamfir coming in late to an ambush meant for her and brushes her companion's deaths off as a sacrifice worth making for Targoviste.
• Gender-Blender Name: Zamfir is a masculine name in Romanian, Zamfira is actually the feminine form.
• I Am Very British: An inversion. She speaks with a very upper class English accent, but doesn't seem to be from England, and her accent might just be Translation Convention to indicate her status as the last noble in Targoviste.
• Improbable Hairstyle: She sports a haircut that wouldn't be in fashion for several more centuries.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Her insistence on storing holy water instead of using it to give the populace something to drink does make sense as holy water would act as a powerful weapon against night creatures and vampires, should they attack the Underground Court, which does end up happening. Also the cask of holy water that Trevor took from the court ends up instrumental in destroying a rebis and foiling Death's plan to bring Dracula back.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Primarily fights using daggers and isn't very mentally stable.
• Redemption Equals Death: Downplayed. Sypha's attempt to break through her insanity doesn't work, and almost makes Zamfir have a total breakdown, but she pulls herself together enough to put herself between Ratko and civilians, being mortally wounded in the process but helping Trevor defeat him, with her dying words being a plea to Sypha to save her city.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: During her Sanity Slippage, she repeatedly expresses that because she saved and protected the bodies of the Royal Family, that they will come back and save Targoviste.
• Unscrupulous Hero: As a fighter, she has a bad habit of only pitching in to help after the damage is already done. As an ally, she tends to dismiss any casualties as necessary sacrifices for the cause and treats Trevor and Sypha with a rather unnecessary amount of suspicion. As a leader, she does nothing for the remaining peasantry's non-existent living conditions and even confiscates what little food and supplies as "tribute" for their "betters."
• Upper-Class Twit: She is the only remaining noble in Targoviste and she is half-crazy and incompetent as a leader.

Greta of Danesti

Voiced by: Marsha Thompson (English), Wakana Kowaka (Japanese), Jahel Morga (Latin American Spanish)

"I don't need to be impressed by low-key swagger. I need you to commit to saving these people. Because my life isn't worth living if I can't save theirs."

The headwoman of the village of Danesti. She calls on Alucard to aid her village from night creature attacks.

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• Action Girl: Is basically in charge of looking after the people of her area and even fights to protect them herself.
• Ambiguously Brown: She has a darker skin tone than most of the characters in the show. Alucard speculates she has some ancestry from Carthage (modern day Tunisia). That she is voiced by a black woman only adds to the ambiguity.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She is the headwoman of Danesti, and is the most capable fighter amongst the villagers.
• Badass Normal: She has no special training or magic powers. She's just a person with weapons and a lot of determination.
• Black Boss Lady: She is a dark-skinned woman and the tough-as-nails leader of the village of Danesti.
• Canon Foreigner: Despite her name, executive producer Kevin Kolde has denied that Greta of Danesti is a Gender Flipped version of Grant Danasty, effectively making her an original character not based on anyone from the games.
• Choice of Two Weapons: Her main weapons are a one-handed sword and hammer. She can use them both with pretty impressive skills, such as stabbing a demon in the head sideways with her sword and then using the hammer to drive it deeper.
• Deadpan Snarker: Towards Alucard a lot, he doesn't seem to fully mind. She also trades wits with Saint Germain a lot.
  St. Germain: (when seeing the castle) Ugly as sin.
  Alucard: It's not ugly.
  Greta: It's ugly. And it's sad and it's cold. Bad things happened here.
  Alucard: (beat) That’s my childhood home you’re talking about.
  Greta: Well, that explains a lot.
• Determinator: Nothing will stop her from finding a way to protect her people, not even swarms of monsters and vampires.
• Establishing Character Moment: When we first see her, she's holding her own against night creatures. Then, when she speaks with Alucard, she plainly tells him that she doesn't like or trust him because he's half-vampire (and reeks of alcohol) but that he's also the best solution she could think of for her and the village of Danesti's survival. She demands that he either commit to saving the people of the village, no matter what it takes or how long, or go right back where he came from. This establishes her as someone who is forward, pragmatic, tough, and takes no bullshit.
• Gardening-Variety Weapon: When Alucard saves her village from a monster attack, she is seen holding a pitchfork. And apparently according to a story she recounted, she nearly fell victim to a pitchfork brandished by an angry wife as well.
• History Repeats: A bold, fire-tongued woman deadset on helping people, meets a brooding reclusive nonhuman man with a frightening reputation and even more terrifying skill. She isn't the least bit impressed or intimidated by him, pushes him to be better, melts his heart and inspires him to care again. Lisa would approve.
  • The way Alucard welcomes her to his home is how his father welcomed his mother to his lab.
  • Greta tells Alucard "I think I might like you", the exact same thing that Dracula told Lisa in their first meeting.
  • The first time they meet, Greta isn't the least bit impressed by Alucard, calls him out for some of his worse habits and pushes him to actually do something to help people long-term. Lisa did basically the same thing in her first meeting with Dracula.
  • She takes a misantrophic Alucard, makes him smile and accept people. Just like what Lisa did for Dracula.
• Implied Love Interest: She and Alucard have a lot of onscreen chemistry. While in the context of talking about her relationship with Trevor, Sypha tells Alucard that he's "in trouble". He doesn't argue.
• Magical Sensory Effect: Likes certain individuals in Castlevania. She can apparently smell magic off of others, which was how she was able to tell Germain was a wizard. She claims Alucard has some magic coming from him and smells of sweet spices while Germain smells foul. Germain tries to claim that it was because Alucard took a bath with soaps while he had to fight her chickens for the pond water.
  Greta: And lost.
  Germain: (laughing) And I lost.
• Noodle Incident: Once had an affair with someone that ended with her being attacked with a pitchfork by the lover's wife.
• Only One Name: Compared to most of the other characters, she only introduces herself as Greta.
• Retired Badass: It's implied that she used to be an adventurer until she settled down as the leader of Danesti.
• Ship Tease: She and Alucard share a few meaningful looks and teasing comments. Trevor and Sypha seem to approve.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: With Alucard. Though on both of their parts, the banter is mainly playful.
• Twofer Token Minority:Triple, actually. A brown bisexual woman.

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